Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon Bills, Lamar County, Texas, 1869
Simon Bills registered to vote in Lamar County on July 5, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 1 of them in Lamar County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Simon Bills
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon Bills
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 5, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 16 years
- Naturalized, how
- "By coming of age"
- Naturalized, where
- "Ireland"
- Signature, as written
- "D. W. Guin"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsSimon Bills reported 16 years more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Bills in Lamar County
- Columbus Billsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
- Joseph Billsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
- Samuel Billsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
Billses 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 3 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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