Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrews Cox, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Andrews Cox registered to vote in Bexar County on July 3, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Andrews Cox
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrews Cox
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsAndrews Cox reported 13 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Coxes 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 5 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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