Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Obidiah Hughes, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Obidiah Hughes registered to vote in Bowie County on August 20, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Obidiah Hughes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Obidiah Hughes
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hughes in Bowie County
- Bill Hughesborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
- E.B. Hughesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1849
- Sidney Hughesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1849
Hugheses 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 15 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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