Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon White, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Simon White registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 23, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Simon White
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon White
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 18 months
- Years in the precinct
- 18 months
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 19 years
- Signature, as written
- "Simon x White"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsSimon White reported 19 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Whites 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 32 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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