Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Frank Kyle, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Frank Kyle registered to vote in Colorado County on July 13, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 4 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 17 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Frank Kyle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Frank Kyle
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
17 yearsFrank Kyle reported 17 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Kyle in Colorado County
- Frank Kyleborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1846
- Martin Kyleborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1844
- Samuel Kyleborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1848
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 5 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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