Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Grile Pepper, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Grile Pepper registered to vote in Davis County on August 9, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Davis County
Grile Pepper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Grile [?] Pepper
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Davis County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Pepper in Davis County
- Brister Pepperborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1850
Peppers 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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