Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lee Tucker, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Lee Tucker registered to vote in Colorado County on November 20, 1869. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 1 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Lee Tucker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lee Tucker
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Colorado County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsLee Tucker reported 7 years more in Texas than in Colorado County.
Other freedmen named Tucker in Colorado County
- Daniel Tuckerborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1854
Tuckers 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 53 of the Colorado County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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