Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Morgan Cooper, Chambers County, Texas, 1869
Morgan Cooper registered to vote in Chambers County on December 1, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 10 of them in Chambers County. The registrar wrote "Emancipated in Texas in 1865" beside his name.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Morgan Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Morgan Cooper
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- December 1, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Chambers County
- 10 years
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1865"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Morgan Cooper"
- Remarks, as written
- "Emancipated in Texas in 1865"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsMorgan Cooper reported 10 years more in Texas than in Chambers County.
Other freedmen named Cooper in Chambers County
- Daniel Cooperborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
- William Cooperborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
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 7 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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