Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Latham, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Latham registered to vote in Shelby County on July 26, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 25 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 25 years
- In Texas
- 24 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Thomas Latham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Latham
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 25 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 24 years
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas Latham"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
24 yearsThomas Latham reported 24 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Latham in Shelby County
- Daniel Lathamborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Fed Lathamborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- James Lathamborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
Lathams 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 4 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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