Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Issac Lewis, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Issac Lewis registered to vote in Anderson County on November 26, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Issac Lewis
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Issac Lewis
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Registered
- November 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Lewis in Anderson County
- Peter Lewisborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1846
- William Lewisborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1841
Lewises 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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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