Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Walton, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Moses Walton registered to vote in Harrison County on August 16, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 2 of them in Harrison County. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Moses Walton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Walton
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 18 years
- Signature, as written
- "M. L. Walton"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsMoses Walton reported 18 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Walton in Harrison County
- Isom Waltonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1846
- Joseph Waltonborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1857
- Minie Waltonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1851
- Samuel Waltonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
- Thomas Waltonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1848
Waltons 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 64 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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