Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Smith, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Smith registered to vote in Hopkins County on July 20, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Hopkins County. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Nelson Smith
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Smith
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Simon x Barnum"
Other freedmen named Smith in Hopkins County
- Cato Smithborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1858
- John Smithborn in Pennsylvania, reached Texas about 1865
Smiths 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 2 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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