Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Eldridge Hester, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Eldridge Hester registered to vote in Colorado County on August 19, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Eldridge Hester
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Eldridge Hester
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Hesters 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 42 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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