Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Edwards, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Sam Edwards registered to vote in Fort Bend County on September 7, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 2 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Sam Edwards
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Edwards
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- September 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 19 years
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsSam Edwards reported 19 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Edwards in Fort Bend County
- Simmon Edwardsreached Texas about 1866
- William Edwardsreached Texas about 1866
- Wm Edwardsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
Edwardses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Edwards
- Edward 5
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 33 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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