Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cezar Ward, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Cezar Ward registered to vote in Hunt County on July 20, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 3 of them in Hunt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Cezar Ward
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cezar Ward
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 7 years
- Signature, as written
- "Isaac x Mack Witness D. C. Constant"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsCezar Ward reported 7 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Other freedmen named Ward in Hunt County
- Oliver Wardborn in Georgia
- William Wardborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1848
Wards 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 5 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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