Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edwards Epps, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Edwards Epps registered to vote in Freestone County on July 29, 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
Edwards Epps
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edwards Epps
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Epps in Freestone County
- George Eppsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
Eppses 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 10 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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