San Augustine County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Thomas Hightower, San Augustine County, Texas, 1867
Thomas Hightower registered to vote in San Augustine County on July 20, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. San Augustine County registered 340 freedmen in 1867, 48% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Thomas Hightower
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- San Augustine County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Thomas Hightower"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Hightowers 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 3 of the San Augustine County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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