Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Adam Wortham, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Adam Wortham registered to vote in Lamar County on July 8, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Lamar County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Lamar County
Adam Wortham
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Adam Wortham
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Signature, as written
- "James Antwood"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Wortham in Lamar County
- Edmond Worthamborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1847
Worthams 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 9 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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