Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Osborn, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Willis Osborn registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 29, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 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
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Willis Osborn
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Osborn
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 29, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 19 years
- Years in the precinct
- 19 years
Osborns 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 42 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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