Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gid Hooper, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Gid Hooper registered to vote in Shelby County on August 7, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Shelby County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Gid Hooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gid Hooper
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jed x Hooper"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hooper in Shelby County
- Charles Hooperborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Henry Hooperborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
- Joseph Hooperborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1858
- Marsh Hooperborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Pink Hooperborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Hoopers 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 11 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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