Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rocknell Bates, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Rocknell Bates registered to vote in Walker County on November 18, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Walker County
Rocknell Bates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rocknell Bates
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Walker County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "Rockwell his X mark Bates"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bates in Walker County
- Anderson Batesborn in Virginia
Bateses 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 41 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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