Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thornton Henderson, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Thornton Henderson registered to vote in Harrison County on August 20, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Thornton Henderson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thornton Henderson
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Harrison County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "J Landrum"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Henderson in Harrison County
- Calvin Hendersonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- David Hendersonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
- Jack Hendersonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- James Hendersonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
- Jerry Hendersonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Hendersons 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 68 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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