Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Woodley Carson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Woodley Carson registered to vote in Colorado County on August 7, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Woodley Carson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Woodley Carson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Carsons 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 32 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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