Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Holmes, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Robert Holmes registered to vote in Colorado County on July 26, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 1 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
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Robert Holmes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Holmes
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 21'
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 29 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsRobert Holmes reported 29 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Holmes in Colorado County
- Arthur Holmesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- Greenville Holmesborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1848
- Isaac Holmesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
- Mansfield Holmesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1851
- Nathan Holmesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
Holmeses 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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