Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Martin Kyle, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Martin Kyle registered to vote in Colorado County on August 12, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 2 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
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
- 21 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Martin Kyle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Martin Kyle
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
21 yearsMartin Kyle reported 21 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
- 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. Colorado County's entries fill 64 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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