Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Richard Parker, Leon County, Texas, 1869
Richard Parker registered to vote in Leon County on November 16, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Richard Parker
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Naturalized, where
- "Richard Parker"
- Signature, as written
- "Cold"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Parker in Leon County
- Starks Parkerborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
- Thomas H. Parkerborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1865
Parkers 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 28 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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