El Paso County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Montgomery Horey, El Paso County, Texas, 1869
Montgomery Horey registered to vote in El Paso County on November 25, 1869. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. El Paso County registered 4 freedmen in 1867, under 1% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Montgomery Horey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Montgomery Horey
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- El Paso County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in El Paso County
- 4 months
- Years in the precinct
- 4 months
- Years in Texas before El Paso County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsMontgomery Horey reported 14 years more in Texas than in El Paso County.
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 17 of the El Paso County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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