Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Eubanks, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Willis Eubanks registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 5, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Willis Eubanks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Eubanks
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Willis x Eubanks"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsWillis Eubanks reported 11 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Eubankses 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 14 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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