Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shepherd Collins, Davis County, Texas, 1869
Shepherd Collins registered to vote in Davis County on November 26, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored. Transferred from Marion County" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Shepherd Collins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shepherd Collins
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Davis County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Transferred from Marion County"
Other freedmen named Collins in Davis County
- Jerry Collinsborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1867
Collinses 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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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