Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Rice Price, Wood County, Texas, 1867

Rice Price registered to vote in Wood County on August 31, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with South Carolina and Texas marked
Born in South Carolina, registered in Wood County, Texas
South Carolina
Birthplace
12 years
In Texas
about 1855
Reached Texas
11 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1855 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County

Rice Price

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Rice Price
Place of birth
South Carolina
County of registration
Wood County
Precinct
5
Registered
August 31, 1867
Years in Texas
12 years
Years in Wood County
8 months
Years in the precinct
8 months
Years in Texas before Wood County
11 years
Signature, as written
"Rice his X mark Price"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Wood County highlighted
Wood County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

11 years

Rice Price reported 11 years more in Texas than in Wood County.

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 23 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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