Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wm. Sanders, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Wm. Sanders registered to vote in Dallas County on August 29, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Wm. Sanders
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wm. Sanders
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sanders in Dallas County
- Robb Sandersborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
Sanderses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Sanders
- Saunders 16
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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