Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Ed Smith, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Ed Smith registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 16, 1867. He reported 22 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Fort Bend County, Texas
22 years
In Texas
15 years
In the county
about 1845
Reached Texas
7 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1845 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Ed Smith

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Ed Smith
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 16, 1867
Years in Texas
22 years
Years in Fort Bend County
15 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
7 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

7 years

Ed Smith reported 7 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Smith in Fort Bend County

Smiths elsewhere in Texas

All 459 freedmen named Smith 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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