Angelina County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Godfrey Finley, Angelina County, Texas, 1867
Godfrey Finley registered to vote in Angelina County on August 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 33 years in Texas, 33 of them in Angelina County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 33 years
- In Texas
- 33 years
- In the county
- about 1834
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1834 to 1870
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In Angelina County
Godfrey Finley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Godfrey Finley
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Angelina County
- Precinct
- Nelson
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 33 years
- Years in Angelina County
- 33 years
- Years in the precinct
- 33 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Finley in Angelina County
- Ramunlus Finleyborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1849
Finleys 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 6 of the Angelina County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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