Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Oliver Collins, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1868
Oliver Collins registered to vote in Guadalupe County on January 30, 1868. 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 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Oliver Collins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Oliver Collins
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Collins in Guadalupe County
- Frank S Collinsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
- Henry Collinsborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
- Sanford Collinsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
Collinses 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 27 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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