Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rodolph Waters, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Rodolph Waters registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 16, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Rodolph Waters
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rodolph Waters
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 12 years
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsRodolph Waters reported 12 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Waters in Fort Bend County
- Harrison Watersreached Texas about 1858
Waterses 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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