Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon Riley, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Simon Riley registered to vote in Harrison County on August 27, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Harrison County. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Simon Riley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon Riley
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "J. G. Riley"
Other freedmen named Riley in Harrison County
- William Rileyborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1864
- William Rileyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1846
Rileys 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 82 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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