Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wm Evans, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Wm Evans registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 10 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Wm Evans
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wm Evans
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 9 years
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsWm Evans reported 9 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Evans in Fort Bend County
- Paton Evansreached Texas about 1851
- William Evansreached Texas about 1866
- William Evansreached Texas about 1860
Evanses 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 37 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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