Cameron County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Morris Billingsley, Cameron County, Texas, 1869
Morris Billingsley registered to vote in Cameron County on November 22, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 of them in Cameron County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cameron County registered 99 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Morris Billingsley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Morris Billingsley
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Cameron County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Cameron County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Billingsley in Cameron County
- Peter Billingsleyborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1865
Billingsleys 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. Cameron County's entries fill 20 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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