Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Plesant Crook, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Plesant Crook registered to vote in Hopkins County on July 27, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas, 11 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Plesant Crook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Plesant Crook
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Madison Smith"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Crooks 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 8 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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