Kaufman County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jack Huff, Kaufman County, Texas, 1867
Jack Huff registered to vote in Kaufman County on August 26, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Kaufman County registered 189 freedmen in 1867, 18% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Jack Huff
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jack Huff
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Kaufman County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Kaufman County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Kaufman County
- 5 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jack Huff"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsJack Huff reported 5 years more in Texas than in Kaufman County.
Other freedmen named Huff in Kaufman County
- Hemp Huffborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1861
- Samuel Huffborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1859
Huffs 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 15 of the Kaufman County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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