Lavaca County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Elgin, Lavaca County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Elgin registered to vote in Lavaca County on July 6, 1867. He reported 19 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lavaca County registered 435 freedmen in 1867, 29% of its voters.
- 19 years
- In Texas
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
1848186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Lavaca County
Edmund Elgin
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Elgin
- County of registration
- Lavaca County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Lavaca County
- 11 months
- Years in the precinct
- 11 months
- Years in Texas before Lavaca County
- 18 years
- Naturalized, how
- "County Court"
- Naturalized, when
- "July 6th 1867"
- Naturalized, where
- "LaGrange, Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Elbert Ely"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsEdmund Elgin reported 18 years more in Texas than in Lavaca 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 6 of the Lavaca County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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