Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wiat Ray, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Wiat Ray registered to vote in Anderson County on July 29, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Wiat Ray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wiat Ray
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Anderson County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ray in Anderson County
- Miller Rayborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
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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