Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Cornelius, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Cornelius registered to vote in Anderson County on July 25, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 3 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Jackson Cornelius
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Cornelius
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 12
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Anderson County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsJackson Cornelius reported 15 years more in Texas than in Anderson County.
Other freedmen named Cornelius in Anderson County
- Quincy Corneliusborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1841
Corneliuses 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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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