Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Hooper, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Hooper registered to vote in Hill County on August 13, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Hill County
Lewis Hooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Hooper
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- White Rock
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Hoopers 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. Hill County's entries fill 23 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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