Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon Smell, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Simon Smell registered to vote in Austin County on July 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Austin County
Simon Smell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon Smell
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Austin County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Smell in Austin County
- March Smellborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
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 4 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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