Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lem Davidson, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Lem Davidson registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 10, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Lem Davidson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lem Davidson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 19 years
- Signature, as written
- "Sam x Sanders"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsLem Davidson reported 19 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Davidson in Hopkins County
- Samuel Davidsonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1863
Davidsons 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 21 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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