Tarrant County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Samel Sanders, Tarrant County, Texas, 1867

Samel Sanders registered to vote in Tarrant County on August 12, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Tarrant County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Tarrant County registered 212 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.

Born in Virginia, registered in Tarrant County, Texas

Virginia
Birthplace: 10 years
In Texas: 10 years
In the county: about 1857
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1857 to 1870

185718601861186218631864186518661867186818691870

In Tarrant County

Samel Sanders

Texas

Name: Samel Sanders
Place of birth: Virginia
County of registration: Tarrant County
Precinct: 8
Registered: August 12, 1867
Years in Texas: 10 years
Years in Tarrant County: 10 years
Years in the precinct: 10 years
Remarks, as written: "Colored"

Tarrant County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Sanders in Tarrant County

Comodore Sandersborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
Samuel Sandersborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856

Sanderses elsewhere in Texas

All 59 freedmen named Sanders in Texas

Variations of Sanders

Saunders 16

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 9 of the Tarrant County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

African American genealogy in Tarrant County, Texas

Tarrant County freedmen and genealogy Every freedman who registered in Tarrant County The Sanders name in Texas Born in Virginia Search Tarrant County by name