Hardin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Kan Anderson, Hardin County, Texas, 1867
Kan Anderson registered to vote in Hardin County on July 29, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 7 of them in Hardin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hardin County registered 41 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Kan Anderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Kan Anderson
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hardin County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Hardin County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Hardin County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsKan Anderson reported 6 years more in Texas than in Hardin County.
Other freedmen named Anderson in Hardin County
- Austin Andersonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Andersons 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 3 of the Hardin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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