Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Turner Hays, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Turner Hays registered to vote in Colorado County on August 13, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 5 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Turner Hays
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Turner Hays
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsTurner Hays reported 3 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Hays in Colorado County
- David Haysborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Sam Haysborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
Hayses 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 37 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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