Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Allen Lewis, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Allen Lewis registered to vote in Lamar County on July 10, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 2 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
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Allen Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Allen Lewis
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "W. G. Brink"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearAllen Lewis reported 1 year more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Lewis in Lamar County
- Fielding Lewisborn in Virginia, 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 13 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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