Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Butcher, Freestone County, Texas, 1867
Dick Butcher registered to vote in Freestone County on August 13, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Dick Butcher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Butcher
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Butcher in Freestone County
- Aaron Butcherborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
Butchers 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 19 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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