Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Kyle, Colorado County, Texas, 1868
Samuel Kyle registered to vote in Colorado County on January 31, 1868. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 20 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Samuel Kyle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Kyle
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsSamuel Kyle reported 19 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Kyle in Colorado County
- Frank Kyleborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1846
- Frank Kyleborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Martin Kyleborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1844
Kyles 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 47 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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