Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elijah Cummings, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Elijah Cummings registered to vote in Colorado County on July 17, 1867. He reported South Carolina 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.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Elijah Cummings
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elijah Cummings
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cummings in Colorado County
- George Cummingsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1847
Cummingses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Cummings
- Cummins 7
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 11 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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