Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley McLamore, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Wesley McLamore registered to vote in Hopkins County on September 26, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 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
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Wesley McLamore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley McLamore
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- September 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Naturalized, how
- "Indiana"
- Signature, as written
- "J M Jarmon"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named McLamore in Hopkins County
- Calvin McLamoreborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1862
- Harrison McLamoreborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1864
McLamores 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 37 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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