Harris County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shade Crome, Harris County, Texas, 1867
Shade Crome registered to vote in Harris County on June 12, 1867. He reported 14 years in Texas, 5 of them in Harris County. The registrar wrote "Colored Null & void" beside his name. Harris County registered 2,039 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Shade Crome
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shade Crome
- County of registration
- Harris County
- Registered
- June 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Harris County
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Harris County
- 9 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Naturalization papers"
- Naturalized, when
- "Feby 3 1853"
- Naturalized, where
- "Galveston Tx"
- Signature, as written
- "R. G. Rawley"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Null & void"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsShade Crome reported 9 years more in Texas than in Harris County.
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 1 of the Harris County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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