Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abe Simmons, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Abe Simmons registered to vote in Freestone County on November 26, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Abe Simmons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abe Simmons
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Simmons in Freestone County
- Jefferson Simmonsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Jerry Simmonsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Simmonses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Simmons
- Simons 20
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 44 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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