Lavaca County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Wiley Clark, Lavaca County, Texas, 1867

Wiley Clark registered to vote in Lavaca County on July 2, 1867. He reported 9 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lavaca County registered 435 freedmen in 1867, 29% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Lavaca County, Texas
9 years
In Texas
about 1858
Reached Texas
8 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1858 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Lavaca County

Wiley Clark

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Wiley Clark
County of registration
Lavaca County
Precinct
9
Registered
July 2, 1867
Years in Texas
9 years
Years in Lavaca County
18 months
Years in the precinct
18 months
Years in Texas before Lavaca County
8 years
Signature, as written
"Wiley Black"
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Lavaca County highlighted
Lavaca County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

8 years

Wiley Clark reported 8 years more in Texas than in Lavaca County.

Other freedmen named Clark in Lavaca County

Clarks elsewhere in Texas

All 100 freedmen named Clark in Texas

Variations of Clark

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 2 of the Lavaca County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.

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