Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Soloman Lomax, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Soloman Lomax registered to vote in Bowie County on November 20, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Soloman Lomax
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Soloman Lomax
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 30 years
- Years in the precinct
- 30 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lomax in Bowie County
- Frank Lomaxborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1847
Lomaxes 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 19 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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