Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Levi Jackson, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Levi Jackson registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 13, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Levi Jackson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Levi Jackson
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 13 years
- Signature, as written
- "Levi x Jackson"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsLevi Jackson reported 13 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Jackson in Hopkins County
- John Jacksonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
- William Jacksonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1863
Jacksons 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 24 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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