Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Oceelah Oceolah] Gravis, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Oceelah Oceolah] Gravis registered to vote in Harrison County on July 3, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Oceelah Oceolah] Gravis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Oceelah Oceolah] Gravis
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 1
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsOceelah Oceolah] Gravis reported 3 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Gravises 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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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