Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Eliah Bonds, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Eliah Bonds registered to vote in Colorado County on August 6, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 2 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored Erased" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 26 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Eliah Bonds
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Eliah Bonds
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 46'
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 26 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Erased"
Elsewhere in Texas
26 yearsEliah Bonds reported 26 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Bonds in Colorado County
- Aaron Bondsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1837
Bondses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Bonds
- Bond 5
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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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