Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Jenkins, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Robert Jenkins registered to vote in Walker County on November 19, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Walker County
Robert Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Signature, as written
- "Robert X Jenkins"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jenkins in Walker County
- Adam Jenkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
- Albert Jenkinsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1851
- Collen Jenkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
- Dallas Jenkinsborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1852
- Gus Jenkinsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Jenkinses 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 43 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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