Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Miller Ray, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Miller Ray registered to vote in Anderson County on August 2, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Miller Ray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Miller Ray
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ray in Anderson County
- Wiat Rayborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Rays 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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