Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Franklin Edwards, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Franklin Edwards registered to vote in Harrison County on November 18, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 2 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Franklin Edwards
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Franklin Edwards
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsFranklin Edwards reported 19 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Edwards in Harrison County
- Adam Edwardsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- David Edwardsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
- Green Edwardsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1849
- Janes Edwardsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Nelson Edwardsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Edwardses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Edwards
- Edward 5
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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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