Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Jenkins, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Jenkins registered to vote in Bexar County on July 5, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Edmund Jenkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Jenkins
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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 7 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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