Galveston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Randall Reavis, Galveston County, Texas, 1867
Randall Reavis registered to vote in Galveston County on June 5, 1867. He reported 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Galveston County registered 1,179 freedmen in 1867, 39% of its voters.
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
1859186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Galveston County
Randall Reavis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Randall Reavis
- County of registration
- Galveston County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- June 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Galveston County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Galveston County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsRandall Reavis reported 7 years more in Texas than in Galveston County.
Reavises 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 5 of the Galveston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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