Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Horace Lawson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Horace Lawson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 16, 1867. He reported 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
1858186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County
Horace Lawson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Horace Lawson
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 9 years
Other freedmen named Lawson in Fort Bend County
- Frank Lawsonreached Texas about 1866
Lawsons 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 23 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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