Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ser Jones, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Ser Jones registered to vote in Anderson County on August 14, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Ser Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ser Jones
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Anderson County
- George Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
- Henry Jonesborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1862
- Henry Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
- Jerry Jonesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
- Manuel Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1852
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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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