Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Woodley Cook, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Woodley Cook registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 15, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 of them in Brazoria County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
Woodley Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Woodley Cook
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Brazoria County
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cook in Brazoria County
- Benjamin Cookborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Joseph Cookborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
Cooks 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 22 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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