Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cute Cole, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Cute Cole registered to vote in Harrison County on July 29, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 3 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Cute Cole
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cute Cole
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "C. Cole"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsCute Cole reported 11 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Cole in Harrison County
- Harrison Coleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Moses Coleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1846
- Real Coleborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Coles 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. It sits on page 49 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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