Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alua Turner, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Alua Turner registered to vote in Anderson County on August 2, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Anderson County
Alua Turner
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alua Turner
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 2, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Turner in Anderson County
- Benton Turnerborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1856
- Calvin Turnerborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
- Edmmund Turnerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1864
- Edmund Turnerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
- Frank Turnerborn in Pennsylvania, reached Texas about 1865
Turners 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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