Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Parker Rhodes, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Parker Rhodes registered to vote in Anderson County on August 12, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Parker Rhodes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Parker Rhodes
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rhodes in Anderson County
- Caldwell Rhodesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1847
Rhodeses 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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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