Kaufman County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Gray, Kaufman County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Gray registered to vote in Kaufman County on August 12, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Kaufman County registered 189 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Nelson Gray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Gray
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Kaufman County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Kaufman County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Kaufman County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Nelson Gray"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsNelson Gray reported 3 years more in Texas than in Kaufman County.
Other freedmen named Gray in Kaufman County
- Dock Grayborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1861
- Moses Grayborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1857
- Newman Grayborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
Grays 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 Kaufman County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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