Houston County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Kerry Jenkins, Houston County, Texas, 1869
Kerry Jenkins registered to vote in Houston County on November 26, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Houston County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Houston County registered 963 freedmen in 1867, 50% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Houston County
Kerry Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Kerry Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Houston County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Houston County
- 20 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Alabama"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Houston County
- Jesse Jenkinsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1863
Jenkinses 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 47 of the Houston County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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