Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Augustus Price, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Augustus Price registered to vote in Lamar County on July 11, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Lamar County
Augustus Price
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Augustus Price
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Signature, as written
- "S. Walker"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Price in Lamar County
- Bob Priceborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- Josiah Priceborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
Prices 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 15 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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