Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Maburn Ford, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Maburn Ford registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 5, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Maburn Ford
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Maburn Ford
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 12
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Signature, as written
- "Maburn x Ford"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Ford in Hopkins County
- John Fordborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
Fords 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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