Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Daniel Pennybacker, Lamar County, Texas, 1867
Daniel Pennybacker registered to vote in Lamar County on July 13, 1867. He reported Virginia 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 18 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Daniel Pennybacker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Daniel Pennybacker
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 13, 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
- "Ansel Maryfield"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
18 yearsDaniel Pennybacker reported 18 years more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Pennybacker in Lamar County
- Joseph Pennybackerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
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 19 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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