Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Cook, Bexar County, Texas, 1868
Lewis Cook registered to vote in Bexar County on January 31, 1868. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Lewis Cook
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Cook
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cook in Bexar County
- Allen Cookborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1855
Cooks 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 40 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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