Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Price, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Willis Price registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 23, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Willis Price
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Price
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 3 years
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsWillis Price reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Price in Fort Bend County
- William Pricereached Texas about 1841
Prices 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 38 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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