Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Bennett, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Bennett registered to vote in Freestone County on July 20, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Edmund Bennett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Bennett
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bennett in Freestone County
- Rufus Bennettborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
- William Bennettborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Bennetts 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. Freestone County's entries fill 45 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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