Angelina County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jefferson Jenkins, Angelina County, Texas, 1867
Jefferson Jenkins registered to vote in Angelina County on August 31, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 26 of them in Angelina County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 26 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
Jefferson Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jefferson Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Angelina County
- Precinct
- Homer
- Place of residence
- Angelina County
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Angelina County
- 26 years
- Years in Texas before Angelina County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearJefferson Jenkins reported 1 year more in Texas than in Angelina County.
Jenkinses 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 11 of the Angelina County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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