Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Taylor Jones, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Taylor Jones registered to vote in Freestone County on November 22, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Taylor Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Taylor Jones
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Freestone County
- Addison Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Claborn Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- Edward Jonesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1861
- Ellridge Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- George Jonesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
Joneses elsewhere in Texas
Sources
This entry comes from the 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration, the Texas Secretary of State registration lists held by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It sits on page 38 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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