Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Oliver Ward, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Oliver Ward registered to vote in Hunt County. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Hunt County. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Oliver Ward
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
Other freedmen named Ward in Hunt County
- Cezar Wardborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- 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. Hunt County's entries fill 31 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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