Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ed Kimble, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Ed Kimble registered to vote in Walker County on August 22, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Ed Kimble
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ed Kimble
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Walker County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 2 years
- Signature, as written
- "Ed X Rumble"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsEd Kimble reported 2 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Kimble in Walker County
- Henry Kimbleborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1864
Kimbles 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 18 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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