Goliad County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Baker Kilgore, Goliad County, Texas, 1867

Baker Kilgore registered to vote in Goliad County on July 15, 1867. He reported 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Goliad County registered 161 freedmen in 1867, 28% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Texas marked
Registered in Goliad County, Texas
13 years
In Texas
about 1854
Reached Texas
12 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1854 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Goliad County

Baker Kilgore

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Baker Kilgore
County of registration
Goliad County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 15, 1867
Years in Texas
13 years
Years in Goliad County
7 months
Years in the precinct
7 months
Years in Texas before Goliad County
12 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Goliad County highlighted
Goliad County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

12 years

Baker Kilgore reported 12 years more in Texas than in Goliad County.

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. Goliad County's entries fill 15 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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