Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Churchwell, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Peter Churchwell registered to vote in Walker County on August 30, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
- 22 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Peter Churchwell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Churchwell
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Walker County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 22 years
- Signature, as written
- "Peter X Churchwell"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
22 yearsPeter Churchwell reported 22 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Churchwell in Walker County
- Lewis Churchwellborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
Churchwells 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 27 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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