Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Earnst Eason, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Earnst Eason registered to vote in Colorado County on November 25, 1869. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
Earnst Eason
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Earnst Eason
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Eason in Colorado County
- Adam Easonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
- Edmund Easonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
Easons 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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