Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Smith, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867
Willis Smith registered to vote in Jefferson County on July 22, 1867. He reported 25 years in Texas, 7 of them in Jefferson County. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
1842186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County
Willis Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Smith
- County of registration
- Jefferson County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Jefferson County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Jefferson County
- 18 years
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsWillis Smith reported 18 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.
Smiths 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. Jefferson County's entries fill 8 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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