Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Poke Ward, Lamar County, Texas, 1869
Poke Ward registered to vote in Lamar County on July 6, 1869. He reported Choctaw Nation as his birthplace and 2 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Choctaw Nation
- Birthplace
- 2 years
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Lamar County
Poke Ward
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Poke Ward
- Place of birth
- Choctaw Nation
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 6, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 2 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "S. S. Avery"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearPoke Ward reported 1 year more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Ward in Lamar County
- Dick Wardborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1857
- Isaac Wardborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
Wards 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 5 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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