Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Chester Ross, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Chester Ross registered to vote in Freestone County on August 15, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Chester Ross
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Chester Ross
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ross in Freestone County
- Clark Rossborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Jacob Rossborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Joe Rossborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- John Rossborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- William Rossborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
Rosses 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. It sits on page 22 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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