Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Waters, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Waters registered to vote in Harrison County on July 23, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas, 6 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
Lewis Waters
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Waters
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 5 years
- Signature, as written
- "Q. Waters"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsLewis Waters reported 5 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Waters in Harrison County
- Lewis Watersborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Miller Watersborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1856
Waterses 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 42 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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