Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harrison Cole, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Harrison Cole registered to vote in Harrison County on July 12, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 2 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Harrison Cole
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harrison Cole
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsHarrison Cole reported 6 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Cole in Harrison County
- Cute Coleborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1853
- 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 26 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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