Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Booker Dodson, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Booker Dodson registered to vote in Harrison County on July 8, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 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
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Booker Dodson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Booker Dodson
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 11
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Dodson in Harrison County
- Samuel Dodsonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
Dodsons 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 21 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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