Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Carrol Crowder, Leon County, Texas, 1867
Carrol Crowder registered to vote in Leon County on August 31, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Carrol Crowder
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Carrol Crowder
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Leon County
- 18 months
- Years in the precinct
- 18 months
- Years in Texas before Leon County
- 11 years
- Signature, as written
- "Carroll Crocker"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsCarrol Crowder reported 11 years more in Texas than in Leon County.
Crowders 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 25 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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