Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Washington Umphrey, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
Washington Umphrey registered to vote in Chambers County on August 30, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 31 years in Texas, 10 of them in Chambers County.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 31 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1836
- Reached Texas
- 21 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1836 to 1870
1836186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Chambers County
Washington Umphrey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Washington Umphrey
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 31 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 21 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
Elsewhere in Texas
21 yearsWashington Umphrey reported 21 years more in Texas than in Chambers 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 5 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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