Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Henderson Gamble, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Henderson Gamble 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 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Henderson Gamble
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Henderson Gamble
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gamble in Freestone County
- Free Gambleborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Sampson Gambleborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Samuel Gambleborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Samuel Gambleborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1858
Gambles 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 24 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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