Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Morisson Marion W. White, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Morisson Marion W. White registered to vote in Jasper County on August 26, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored. Rejected. Not being a citizen" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Morisson Marion W. White
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Marcus his X mark White"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Rejected. Not being a citizen"
Other freedmen named White in Jasper County
- Anderson Whiteborn in Tennessee
- Cammell Whiteborn in Tennessee
- D. Whiteborn in Louisiana
- Jourdain Whiteborn in Louisiana
Whites 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 9 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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