Hopkins County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Judge Whitfield, Hopkins County, Texas, 1868
Judge Whitfield registered to vote in Hopkins County on January 31, 1868. He reported Virginia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Hopkins County registered 282 freedmen in 1867, 16% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Judge Whitfield
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Hopkins County
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Whitfield in Hopkins County
- Coleman Whitfieldborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1863
- Daniel Whitfieldborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
Whitfields 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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