Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Ward, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Abram Ward registered to vote in Fayette County on November 20, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Abram Ward
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Ward
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ward in Fayette County
- Dallas Wardborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
Wards 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 62 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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