Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Cooper, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Cooper registered to vote in Colorado County on August 13, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Isaac Cooper
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Cooper
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsIsaac Cooper reported 2 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Cooper in Colorado County
- Calvin Cooperborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Samuel Cooperborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
- 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 36 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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