Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tony Taylor, Lamar County, Texas, 1869
Tony Taylor registered to vote in Lamar County on July 6, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Lamar County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Lamar County
Tony Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tony Taylor
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 6, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "W. H. Jackson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Lamar County
- Oscar Taylorborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
Taylors 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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