Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tobe Ross, Hopkins County, Texas, 1867
Tobe Ross registered to vote in Hopkins County on August 10, 1867. He reported Creek Nation as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Hopkins County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Creek Nation
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Tobe Ross
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tobe Ross
- Place of birth
- Creek Nation
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Hopkins County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Rosses 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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