Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pompey Coleman, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Pompey Coleman registered to vote in Freestone County on July 30, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Pompey Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pompey Coleman
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Freestone County
- Andrew Colemanborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Milton Colemanborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
- Penury Colemanborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1867
Colemans 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 11 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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