Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Glosster Macon, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Glosster Macon registered to vote in Harrison County on July 25, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 8 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Glosster Macon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Glosster Macon
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Come here as a child"
- Signature, as written
- "P. Dans"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Macon in Harrison County
- Jessee Maconborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1862
- Mack Maconborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
Macons 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 44 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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