Hunt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Osburn Lively, Hunt County, Texas, 1867
Osburn Lively registered to vote in Hunt County on July 23, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 8 of them in Hunt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hunt County registered 149 freedmen in 1867, 12% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Osburn Lively
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Osburn Lively
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hunt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Hunt County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Hunt County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Osborn Lively"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsOsburn Lively reported 11 years more in Texas than in Hunt County.
Livelys 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 6 of the Hunt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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