Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lafayette Eden, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Lafayette Eden registered to vote in Colorado County on August 12, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Lafayette Eden
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lafayette Eden
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsLafayette Eden reported 3 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Eden in Colorado County
- Everett Edenborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1862
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 35 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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