Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Coon Baker, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Coon Baker registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 19, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Coon Baker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Coon Baker
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Signature, as written
- "Coon x Baker"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Baker in Hopkins County
- Daniel Bakerborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1862
- Shepherd Bakerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1864
Bakers 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 28 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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