Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ras Waddle, Colorado County, Texas, 1869
Ras Waddle registered to vote in Colorado County on November 18, 1869. 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 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Ras Waddle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ras [Ross] Waddle
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- November 18, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Waddle in Colorado County
- Chas Waddleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Cherry Waddleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Peter Waddleborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
- Thomas Waddleborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1858
Waddles 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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