Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hampton Lilly, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Hampton Lilly registered to vote in Austin County on August 19, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 46 years in Texas, 46 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 46 years
- In Texas
- 46 years
- In the county
- about 1821
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1821 to 1870
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In Austin County
Hampton Lilly
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hampton Lilly
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 46 years
- Years in Austin County
- 46 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lilly in Austin County
- Austin Lillyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1839
- Sammuel Lillyborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1841
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 27 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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