Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
William Toliver, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
William Toliver registered to vote in Colorado County on November 25, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 5 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.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
William Toliver
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- William Toliver
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsWilliam Toliver reported 2 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Toliver in Colorado County
- Alfred Toliverborn in West Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
Tolivers 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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