Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Haywood Zollicoffer, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Haywood Zollicoffer registered to vote in Hill County on July 23, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 1 of them in Hill County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Haywood Zollicoffer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Haywood Zollicoffer
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- White Rock
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Hill County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Hill County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsHaywood Zollicoffer reported 12 years more in Texas than in Hill County.
Other freedmen named Zollicoffer in Hill County
- Bowlin Zollicofferborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1853
- Samuel Zollicofferborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
- Sidney Zollicofferborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
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 3 of the Hill County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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