Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Charles Cooper, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1869
Charles Cooper registered to vote in Fort Bend County on November 22, 1869. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 4 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Charles Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Charles Cooper
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 16 years
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsCharles Cooper reported 16 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Cooper in Fort Bend County
- Charles Cooperreached Texas about 1866
Coopers 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 37 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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