Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Rutherford, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Jack Rutherford registered to vote in Freestone County on November 26, 1869. 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 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Jack Rutherford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Rutherford
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rutherford in Freestone County
- Benjamin Rutherfordborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- David Rutherfordborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Eli Rutherfordborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
- Harry Rutherfordborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
Rutherfords 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. Freestone County's entries fill 45 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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