Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Monday Bird, Davis County, Texas, 1869
Monday Bird registered to vote in Davis County on November 24, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas, 2 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Davis County
Monday Bird
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Monday Bird
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 3
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Davis County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bird in Davis County
- Frank Birdborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1850
Birds 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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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