Brazoria County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Rucker, Brazoria County, Texas, 1867
Abram Rucker registered to vote in Brazoria County on August 15, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Brazoria County registered 1,331 freedmen in 1867, 82% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Rucker
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Brazoria County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rucker in Brazoria County
- Abram Ruckerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
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 21 of the Brazoria County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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