Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Cook, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Sam Cook registered to vote in Fayette County on September 28, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sam Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Cook
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cook in Fayette County
- Alfred Cookborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
- Ed Cook
- Peter Cookborn in Alabama
- Win Cookborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Cooks 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 54 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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