Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Oliver Cleveland, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Oliver Cleveland registered to vote in Freestone County on November 19, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Oliver Cleveland
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Oliver Cleveland
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cleveland in Freestone County
- Goliah Clevelandborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1862
- Jasper Clevelandborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1857
- Jeramiah Clevelandborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
Clevelands 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 35 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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