Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Lanier, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Louis Lanier registered to vote in Jasper County on August 22, 1867. He reported Florida as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Florida
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Lanier
- Place of birth
- Florida
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Amos his x mark James"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lanier in Jasper County
- C. Lanierborn in South Carolina
- Sampson Lanierborn in Virginia
Laniers 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 7 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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