Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Stephens, Hopkins County, Texas, 1868
Thomas Stephens registered to vote in Hopkins County on January 28, 1868. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 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
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hopkins County
Thomas Stephens
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Stephens
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- January 28, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Hopkins County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Stephens in Hopkins County
- Gad Stephensborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1864
Stephenses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Stephens
- Stephenson 13
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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