Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sydney Simons, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Sydney Simons registered to vote in Colorado County on August 8, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 3 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Sydney Simons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sydney Simons
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsSydney Simons reported 2 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Simons in Colorado County
- Thomas Simonsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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