Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Peter Ollens, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Peter Ollens registered to vote in Lamar County on July 11, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Peter Ollens
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Peter Ollens
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 18 years
- Signature, as written
- "A. D. Williams"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsPeter Ollens reported 18 years more in Texas than in Lamar County.
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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