Jefferson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Storm Lewis, Jefferson County, Texas, 1867

Storm Lewis registered to vote in Jefferson County on August 26, 1867. He reported 20 years in Texas, 1 of them in Jefferson County. Jefferson County registered 117 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Jefferson County, Texas
20 years
In Texas
1 year
In the county
about 1847
Reached Texas
19 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1847 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Jefferson County

Storm Lewis

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Storm Lewis
County of registration
Jefferson County
Precinct
4
Registered
August 26, 1867
Years in Texas
20 years
Years in Jefferson County
1 year
Years in the precinct
1 year
Years in Texas before Jefferson County
19 years
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Jefferson County highlighted
Jefferson County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

19 years

Storm Lewis reported 19 years more in Texas than in Jefferson County.

Other freedmen named Lewis in Jefferson County

Lewises elsewhere in Texas

All 197 freedmen named Lewis 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. Jefferson County's entries fill 8 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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