Angelina County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Romulus Finley, Angelina County, Texas, 1867
Romulus Finley registered to vote in Angelina County on August 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 5 of them in Angelina County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Angelina County
Romulus Finley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Romulus Finley
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Angelina County
- Precinct
- Nelson
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Angelina County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Angelina County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsRomulus Finley reported 13 years more in Texas than in Angelina County.
Other freedmen named Finley in Angelina County
- Godfey Finleyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1834
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 7 of the Angelina County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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