Parker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dick Bell, Parker County, Texas, 1867
Dick Bell registered to vote in Parker County on August 9, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Parker County registered 81 freedmen in 1867, 10% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Dick Bell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dick Bell
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Parker County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Parker County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Parker County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsDick Bell reported 13 years more in Texas than in Parker County.
Bells 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 6 of the Parker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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