Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Richard Ross, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Richard Ross registered to vote in Bowie County on July 29, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Richard Ross
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Registered
- July 29, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ross in Bowie County
- John Rossborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
Rosses 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 10 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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