Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Milton Smith, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Milton Smith registered to vote in Freestone County on July 30, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Milton Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Milton Smith
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Smith in Freestone County
- Andrew Smithborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Gabriel Smithborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- George Smithborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Henry Smithborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1867
- Isham Smithborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Smiths 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 12 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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