Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Jones, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Jones registered to vote in Dallas County on August 31, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 8 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Edmund Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Jones
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Dallas County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsEdmund Jones reported 12 years more in Texas than in Dallas County.
Other freedmen named Jones in Dallas County
- Henry Jonesborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1855
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 24 of the Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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