Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wilis Traylor, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Wilis Traylor registered to vote in Jasper County on August 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wilis Traylor
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Registered
- August 24, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Willis his X mark Traylor"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Traylor in Jasper County
- Charles Traylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
- Peter Traylorborn in North Carolina
- Stephen Traylorborn in Alabama
Traylors 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 Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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