Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Clay Norman, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Clay Norman registered to vote in Colorado County on July 12, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 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
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Clay Norman
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Clay Norman
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Norman in Colorado County
- Granville Normanborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1855
- Robert Normanborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- William Normanborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
Normans 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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