Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lony Miller, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Lony Miller registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 10, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 14 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Lony Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lony Miller
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
14 yearsLony Miller reported 14 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Miller in Bastrop County
- Allen Millerborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1853
- Andy Millerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- Bemjamin Millerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
- Benjamin Millerborn in Indiana, reached Texas about 1852
- Benjamin Millerborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1861
Millers 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. Bastrop County's entries fill 50 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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