Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Tatum, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Tatum registered to vote in Freestone County on August 12, 1867. 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
Lewis Tatum
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Tatum
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Tatum in Freestone County
- Adam Tatumborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Hal Tatumborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Richard Tatumborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1867
- Samuel Tatumborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1863
- William Tatumborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Tatums 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 19 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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