Freestone County, Texas Census 1890 Texas Union Veterans Schedule for Freestone County, Texas Special Schedule Overview This special schedule was part of the 11th Census of the United States (1890) to identify Union Civil War Veterans or their widows. By 25 years after the close of the Civil War, almost a quarter of a million pension applications had been rejected because applicants could not obtain affidavits proving their service-related disabilities. By incorporating a special schedule with the 1890 Census, the U.S. government hoped to make available a listing of surviving veterans and thus aid applicants in locating fellow soldiers to testify on their behalf. The Union Soldier Schedules, however, were saved since they were in the custody of the Veterans Administration at the time of the Commerce Department Building fire. Unfortunately about half of these schedules (alphabetically Alabama through Kentucky) have been lost or destroyed. This schedule was only designed to find Union soldiers due to the pension problems described earlier. However, a handful of Confederate soldiers were also listed by accident. Many of these were marked out or annotated with "Confed" by individuals responsible for verifying the information. Microfilm Notes I strongly encouraged to look at the microfilms of the original schedules to verify the information contained in this index. You will find additional information about veterans which an index does not provide. Four microfilms are available through the National Archives and possibly your local genealogy library. The National Archives uses film numbers M123-xxx for their reference number. The last column of the index lists the number of the roll (xxx). Index Notes This index lists persons enumerated in Texas during the summer of 1890. Most of these veterans migrated to Texas following the war. Likewise, a widow listing does not mean the soldier died during the war but may have died during the 25 years between the end of the war and this census. Microfilm Roll 101 Note- Freestone is among a bunch of counties on this microfilm: Last Name First Name Widow Location Rank Service Years Frank Arbends Precinct 2, Private 1862-1865 J W Cunningham Beat 1, Sergeant 1863-1865 Geo Ezell Precinct 2, Private 1864-1865 William R Gardner Not Stated, Private 1864-1864 Francis C Girsutor Precinct 3, Franklin Hopson Precinct 2, Private 1863-1865 J M Luce Beat 1, Private 1861-1865 Henry C Newman Not Stated, Private 1862-1865 Jacob F Powell Precinct 5, Private 1862-1865 James M Rice Precinct 3, Private 1861-1865 William R Smith Precinct 3, Private 1862-1865 Abua p Vaughan Beat 1, Private 1864-1865 Theodore W Wallace Precinct 5, Private 1861-1865 Andrew J White Beat 1, Private 1864-1866 John S Williams Lucy Williams Precinct 3, Corporal 1863-1865