Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jackson Yates, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Jackson Yates registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 29, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Jackson Yates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jackson Yates
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 10
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Naturalized, how
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "[illegible]"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Yateses 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 36 of the Hopkins County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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