Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Cooper, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Cooper registered to vote in Colorado County on July 12, 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
Samuel Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Cooper
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cooper in Colorado County
- Calvin Cooperborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Isaac Cooperborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
- Thomas Cooperborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
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 3 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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