Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeffferson Edwards, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Jeffferson Edwards registered to vote in Bexar County on July 2, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Jeffferson Edwards
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeffferson Edwards
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsJeffferson Edwards reported 16 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Edwards in Bexar County
- Charles Edwardsborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1861
- Oliver Edwardsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1857
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. It sits on page 2 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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