Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Randall Mays, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Randall Mays registered to vote in Walker County on November 23, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Walker County
Randall Mays
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Randall Mays
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Walker County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Naturalized, how
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Randall X Subbay"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Mays in Walker County
- Andrew Maysborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1849
- Charles Maysborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Harrison Maysborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1841
- Sam Maysborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
Mayses 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 48 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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