Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Selathial Walker, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Selathial Walker registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 2 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
20 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas
18 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County

Selathial Walker

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Selathial Walker
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Fort Bend County
2 years
Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
18 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

18 years

Selathial Walker reported 18 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.

Other freedmen named Walker in Fort Bend County

Walkers elsewhere in Texas

All 167 freedmen named Walker in Texas

Variations of Walker

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 21 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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