Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Albert Turner, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Albert Turner registered to vote in Lamar County on July 8, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 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
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Lamar County
Albert Turner
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Albert Turner
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Signature, as written
- "Gordon Nelson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Turner in Lamar County
- Alfred Turnerborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1857
- Solomon Turnerborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1863
Turners 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 10 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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