Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Jones, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Anthony Jones registered to vote in Bexar County on July 5, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Anthony Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Jones
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Bexar County
- Alford Jonesborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1862
- Anthony Jonesborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1853
- Edward Jonesborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1843
- Jackson Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1863
- James Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1863
Joneses 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 6 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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