Hood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Reuben Rucker, Hood County, Texas, 1867
Reuben Rucker registered to vote in Hood County. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hood County registered 25 freedmen in 1867, 5% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Reuben Rucker
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Hood County
- Precinct
- 1
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rucker in Hood County
- David Ruckerborn in Tennessee
- V. Ruckerborn in Tennessee
- William Ruckerborn in Tennessee
Ruckers 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 2 of the Hood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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