Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burvin Terrill, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Burvin Terrill registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 22, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 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
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Burvin Terrill
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burvin Terrill
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Rufus Ferrell"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Terrills 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 31 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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