Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alfred Coleman, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Alfred Coleman registered to vote in Walker County on August 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Walker County
Alfred Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alfred Coleman
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Walker County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Signature, as written
- "A. J. Coleman"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Walker County
- Charles Colemanborn in Virginia
- Isaac Colemanborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
- Stephen Colemanborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1845
Colemans 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 15 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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