Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hilliard Rogers, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Hilliard Rogers registered to vote in Harrison County on July 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Hilliard Rogers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hilliard Rogers
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 19 years
- Years in the precinct
- 18 months
- Signature, as written
- "H. Rogers"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Rogers in Harrison County
- Edward Rogersborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
- George Rogersborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1849
- Levi Rogersborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1855
Rogerses 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 37 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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