Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Parker, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Parker registered to vote in Hopkins County on July 27, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Samuel Parker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Parker
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsSamuel Parker reported 8 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Parkers 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. Hopkins County's entries fill 40 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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