Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Kennedy Thompson, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Kennedy Thompson registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 17, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Kennedy Thompson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Kennedy Thompson
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 10 months
- Years in the precinct
- 10 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Kennedy Thompson"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsKennedy Thompson reported 3 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Other freedmen named Thompson in Hopkins County
- Harry Thompsonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1864
Thompsons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Thompson
- Thomson 10
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 26 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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