Mason County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Reif Menard, Mason County, Texas, 1867
Reif Menard registered to vote in Mason County on September 17, 1867. He reported 10 years in Texas, 3 of them in Mason County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Mason County registered 1 freedman in 1867, under 1% of its voters.
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
1857186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Mason County
Reif Menard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Reif Menard
- County of registration
- Mason County
- Registered
- September 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Mason County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Mason County
- 7 years
- Naturalized, how
- "By Note of Father"
- Naturalized, when
- "1860"
- Naturalized, where
- "Gillespie Co. Tex"
- Signature, as written
- "Alex his x mark Leonard"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsReif Menard reported 7 years more in Texas than in Mason County.
Menards 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 3 of the Mason County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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