Liberty County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Anderson, Liberty County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Anderson registered to vote in Liberty County on August 28, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Liberty County registered 335 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Anderson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Liberty County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 28, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Lewis, his x mark, Ashburn"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Anderson in Liberty County
- Thomas Andersonborn in Maryland
Andersons 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 11 of the Liberty County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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