Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Raney, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Raney registered to vote in Davis County on August 31, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Davis County
Lewis Raney
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Raney
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 4
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Raney in Davis County
- Levi Raneyborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1853
Raneys 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 62 of the Davis County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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