Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Howard Gleeves, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Howard Gleeves registered to vote in Bexar County on July 17, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Howard Gleeves
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Howard Gleeves
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsHoward Gleeves reported 11 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
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 25 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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