Lamar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Fayette Cooper, Lamar County, Texas, 1869
Fayette Cooper registered to vote in Lamar County on July 5, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 8 of them in Lamar County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Lamar County registered 772 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Fayette Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Fayette Cooper
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Lamar County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- July 5, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Lamar County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Lamar County
- 11 years
- Naturalized, how
- "By coming of age"
- Signature, as written
- "D. W. Guin"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsFayette Cooper reported 11 years more in Texas than in Lamar County.
Other freedmen named Cooper in Lamar County
- Samuel Cooperborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1864
Coopers 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 3 of the Lamar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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