Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sim Edwards, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sim Edwards registered to vote in Fayette County on September 28, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sim Edwards
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sim Edwards
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Edwards in Fayette County
- Ben Edwardsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1866
- Ed Edwardsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- George Edwardsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
- John Edwardsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Ned Edwardsreached Texas about 1863
Edwardses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Edwards
- Edward 5
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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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