Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ellis Lee, Wood County, Texas, 1867
Ellis Lee registered to vote in Wood County on July 29, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 12 of them in Wood County. The registrar wrote "Colored voter. Gone" beside his name. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Ellis Lee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ellis Lee
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Wood County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "Ellis his X mark Lee"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored voter. Gone"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearEllis Lee reported 1 year more in Texas than in Wood County.
Other freedmen named Lee in Wood County
- Jacob Leeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1855
Lees 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 9 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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