Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lary Gay, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1867
Lary Gay registered to vote in Guadalupe County on July 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Lary Gay
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lary Gay
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gay in Guadalupe County
- Bill Gayborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1866
Gays 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 1 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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