Brazos County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Coopwood, Brazos County, Texas, 1869
Dick Coopwood registered to vote in Brazos County on November 19, 1869. He reported 30 years in Texas, 5 of them in Brazos County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazos County registered 1,199 freedmen in 1867, 59% of its voters.
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 25 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Dick Coopwood
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Coopwood
- County of registration
- Brazos County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Brazos County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Brazos County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
25 yearsDick Coopwood reported 25 years more in Texas than in Brazos County.
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 37 of the Brazos County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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