Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Rogers, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Jim Rogers registered to vote in Colorado County on November 24, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 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
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Colorado County
Jim Rogers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Rogers
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Rogers in Colorado County
- Sidney Rogersborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1853
Rogerses 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 59 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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