Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Dabney, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Dabney registered to vote in Hill County on August 22, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hill County
Lewis Dabney
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Dabney
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- Towash
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Dabneys 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 10 of the Hill County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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