Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
James Cole, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1869
James Cole registered to vote in Guadalupe County on November 19, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
James Cole
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- James Cole
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cole in Guadalupe County
- Dudley Coleborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1866
Coles 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 29 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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