Wood County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
H.W. Moore, Wood County, Texas, 1867
H.W. Moore registered to vote in Wood County on July 29, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored voter" beside his name. Wood County registered 259 freedmen in 1867, 24% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Wood County
H.W. Moore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- H.W. Moore
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Wood County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Wood County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Wood County
- 7 years
- Signature, as written
- "H. H. his X mark Moore"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsH.W. Moore reported 7 years more in Texas than in Wood County.
Other freedmen named Moore in Wood County
- J.M. Mooreborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1862
Moores 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 9 of the Wood County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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