Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shepherd Baker, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Shepherd Baker registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 19, 1867. He reported Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee
- 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
Shepherd Baker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shepherd Baker
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Stephen D. x Baker"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Baker in Hopkins County
- Coon Bakerborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1861
- Daniel Bakerborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1862
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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