Hood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
A. Hightower, Hood County, Texas, 1867
A. Hightower registered to vote in Hood County. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hood County registered 25 freedmen in 1867, 5% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- A. Hightower
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hood County
- Precinct
- 2
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hightower in Hood County
- S Hightowerborn in South Carolina
Hightowers 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 Hood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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