Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Tinsley, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Sam Tinsley registered to vote in Freestone County on August 14, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Sam Tinsley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Tinsley
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Tinsley in Freestone County
- Logan Tinsleyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
Tinsleys 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 21 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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