Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rily Pruett, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Rily Pruett registered to vote in Davis County on August 2, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Davis County
Rily Pruett
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rily Pruett
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Davis County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Pruett in Davis County
- William Pruettborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1847
Pruetts 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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