Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Moses Graves, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1869
Moses Graves registered to vote in Guadalupe County on November 26, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored - Certificate from Bexar Co" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Moses Graves
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Moses Graves
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored - Certificate from Bexar Co"
Other freedmen named Graves in Guadalupe County
- Daneil Gravesborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1866
Graveses 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 33 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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