Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ed Garner, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Ed Garner registered to vote in Colorado County on November 23, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 27 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1842
- Reached Texas
- 25 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1842 to 1870
Ed Garner
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ed Garner
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 25 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
25 yearsEd Garner reported 25 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Garner in Colorado County
- Mansfield Garnerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
Garners 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 58 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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