Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
David Cooper, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
David Cooper registered to vote in Freestone County on August 17, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Freestone County
David Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- David Cooper
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cooper in Freestone County
- Lafayette Cooperborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Coopers 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 28 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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