Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Win Cook, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Win Cook registered to vote in Fayette County on November 20, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Win Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Win Cook
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 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
- Sam Cookborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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