Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bedford Woods, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Bedford Woods registered to vote in Harrison County on August 22, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Harrison County. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Bedford Woods
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bedford Woods
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Signature, as written
- "B. L. Woods"
Other freedmen named Woods in Harrison County
- Lawson Woodsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Rufus Woodsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1847
Woodses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Woods
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 75 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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