Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sammuel Lilly, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Sammuel Lilly registered to vote in Austin County on January 30, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
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In Austin County
Sammuel Lilly
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sammuel Lilly
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Austin County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lilly in Austin County
- Austin Lillyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1839
Lillys 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 51 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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