Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Simons, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Simons registered to vote in Colorado County on August 7, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 15 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Thomas Simons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Simons
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsThomas Simons reported 3 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Simons in Colorado County
- Sydney Simonsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1862
Simonses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Simons
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 32 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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