Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lerris Linsicum, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Lerris Linsicum registered to vote in Dallas County on August 13, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 3 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Lerris Linsicum
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lerris Linsicum
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 11
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Dallas County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearLerris Linsicum reported 1 year more in Texas than in Dallas County.
Other freedmen named Linsicum in Dallas County
- Albert Linsicumborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1861
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. Dallas County's entries fill 44 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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