Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Monroe Lewis, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Monroe Lewis registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 5, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Monroe Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Monroe Lewis
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Signature, as written
- "Monroe x Lewis"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Lewis in Hopkins County
- William Lewisborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1858
Lewises 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 13 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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