Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Real Cole, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Real Cole registered to vote in Harrison County on July 10, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Real Cole
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Real Cole
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 6
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cole in Harrison County
- Cute Coleborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- Harrison Coleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
- Moses Coleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1846
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. Harrison County's entries fill 92 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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