Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Silas Neely, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Silas Neely registered to vote in Harrison County on August 5, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Harrison County
Silas Neely
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Silas Neely
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 18 years
- Signature, as written
- "J. Neely"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsSilas Neely reported 18 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Neely in Harrison County
- John Neelyborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1856
Neelys 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 57 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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