Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Orville Johnson, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Orville Johnson registered to vote in Colorado County on July 18, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Orville Johnson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Orville Johnson
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Johnson in Colorado County
- Ben Johnsonborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1844
- Bird Johnsonborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Brooks Johnsonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Charles Johnsonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1846
- Charlie Johnsonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
Johnsons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Johnson
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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