Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lee Anderson, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Lee Anderson registered to vote in Wood County on July 27, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored voter" beside his name. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Lee Anderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lee Anderson
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Wood County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Rev. his X mark Anderson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsLee Anderson reported 3 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Other freedmen named Anderson in Wood County
- Harry Andersonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Nedam Andersonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1864
Andersons 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 7 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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