Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dicks Willis, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Dicks Willis registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 27, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fort Bend County
Dicks Willis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dicks Willis
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- November 27, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
Other freedmen named Willis in Fort Bend County
- Henry Willisreached Texas about 1844
Willises 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. Fort Bend County's entries fill 42 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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