Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Killingoworth Simon, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Killingoworth Simon registered to vote in Austin County on November 23, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 5 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Killingoworth Simon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Killingoworth Simon
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Austin County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsKillingoworth Simon reported 3 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Simon in Austin County
- Scipio Simonborn in Alabama
Simons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Simon
- Simons 20
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. Austin County's entries fill 65 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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