Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Christopher Lyons, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Christopher Lyons registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 20 years in Texas, 2 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Christopher Lyons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Christopher Lyons
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsChristopher Lyons reported 18 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
Lyonses 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 36 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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