Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
William Wortham, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
William Wortham registered to vote in Freestone County on November 19, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
William Wortham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- William Wortham
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Wortham in Freestone County
- George Worthamborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1853
Worthams 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 35 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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