Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Button, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Robert Button registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 16 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Robert Button
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Button
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 13 years
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsRobert Button reported 13 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Buttons 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 22 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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