Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Houston Rutledge, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Houston Rutledge registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 8, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Houston Rutledge
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Houston Rutledge
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Hopkins County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsHouston Rutledge reported 7 years more in Texas than in Hopkins County.
Rutledges 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.
African American genealogy in Hopkins County, Texas
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