Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gustave Sanders, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Gustave Sanders registered to vote in Colorado County on August 20, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 8 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Gustave Sanders
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gustave Sanders
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsGustave Sanders reported 4 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Sanders in Colorado County
- Jackson Sandersborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1843
Sanderses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Sanders
- Saunders 16
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 43 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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