Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bowie Lilly, Austin County, Texas, 1868
Bowie Lilly registered to vote in Austin County on January 27, 1868. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
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In Austin County
Bowie Lilly
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bowie Lilly
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- January 27, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Austin County
- 28 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 45 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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