Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lemuel Brooks, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Lemuel Brooks registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 23, 1867. He reported Maryland as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Lemuel Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lemuel Brooks
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Signature, as written
- "Samuel Brooks"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Brooks in Hopkins County
- Benjamin Brooksborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- George Brooksborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1852
- Harris Brooksborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1860
Brookses 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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