Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jerry Lewis, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Jerry Lewis registered to vote in Bexar County on July 5, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Jerry Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jerry Lewis
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lewis in Bexar County
- Benjamin Lewisborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1854
- Clairburn Lewisborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Henry Lewisborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
Lewises 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 Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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