Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Oliver Williamson, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867

Oliver Williamson registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 15, 1867. He reported 13 years in Texas, 13 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
13 years
In Texas
13 years
In the county
about 1854
Reached Texas

What the register records

From about 1854 to 1870

1854186018621864186618681870
In Fort Bend County

Oliver Williamson

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Oliver Williamson
County of registration
Fort Bend County
Registered
August 15, 1867
Years in Texas
13 years
Years in Fort Bend County
13 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fort Bend County highlighted
Fort Bend County on the 1870 county map

Other freedmen named Williamson in Fort Bend County

Williamsons elsewhere in Texas

All 30 freedmen named Williamson in Texas

Variations of Williamson

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.

African American genealogy in Fort Bend County, Texas

Fort Bend County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Fort Bend CountyThe Williamson name in TexasSearch Fort Bend County by name