Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Howard Pitman, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Howard Pitman registered to vote in Walker County on August 6, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Howard Pitman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Howard Pitman
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Walker County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Howard X Pitman"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsHoward Pitman reported 4 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Pitman in Walker County
- James Pitmanborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1864
Pitmans 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 8 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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