Cherokee County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Plenty Nelson, Cherokee County, Texas, 1867
Plenty Nelson registered to vote in Cherokee County on Aug. 1 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Cherokee County. Cherokee County registered 695 freedmen in 1867, 30% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Cherokee County
Plenty Nelson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Plenty Nelson
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Cherokee County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- Aug. 1 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Cherokee County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
Other freedmen named Nelson in Cherokee County
- Howard Nelsonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1866
- Jo. Nelsonborn in Alabama
- Pager Nelsonborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1866
- Wesley Nelsonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
Nelsons 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 33 of the Cherokee County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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