Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ossian Coleman, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Ossian Coleman registered to vote in Bexar County on July 9, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
What the register records
From about 1845 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Ossian Coleman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ossian Coleman
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Coleman in Bexar County
- Jack Colemanborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1862
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 11 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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