Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nero Lewis, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Nero Lewis registered to vote in Wood County on July 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Wood County. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Wood County
Nero Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nero Lewis
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Wood County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 months
- Signature, as written
- "Nero his x mark Lewis"
Lewises 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 Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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