Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Edmond Cook, Colorado County, Texas, 1867

Edmond Cook registered to vote in Colorado County on July 25, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 3 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.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Kentucky and Texas marked
Born in Kentucky, registered in Colorado County, Texas
Kentucky
Birthplace
18 years
In Texas
3 years
In the county
about 1849
Reached Texas
15 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1849 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Colorado County

Edmond Cook

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Edmond Cook
Place of birth
Kentucky
County of registration
Colorado County
Precinct
96° 21'
Registered
July 25, 1867
Years in Texas
18 years
Years in Colorado County
3 years
Years in the precinct
3 years
Years in Texas before Colorado County
15 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored Erased"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Colorado County highlighted
Colorado County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

15 years

Edmond Cook reported 15 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.

Cooks elsewhere in Texas

All 39 freedmen named Cook 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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