Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rister Townson, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Rister Townson registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 15, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Rister Townson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rister Townson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 12
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Reuben X Dunlap"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Variations of Townson
- Towns 6
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 25 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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