Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hampton Simon, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Hampton Simon registered to vote in Harrison County. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hampton Simon
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 11
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 11 months
- Years in the precinct
- 11 months
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Simon in Harrison County
- Jack Simonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1847
Simons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Simon
- Simons 20
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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