Colorado County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cato Walker, Colorado County, Texas, 1867
Cato Walker registered to vote in Colorado County on July 19, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 5 of them in Colorado County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Colorado County registered 1,423 freedmen in 1867, 56% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Cato Walker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cato Walker
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Colorado County
- Precinct
- 96° 32'
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Colorado County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Walker in Colorado County
- Alex Walkerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1839
- Allen Walkerborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Allen W. Walkerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
- David Walkerborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- George Walkerborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
Walkers elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Walker
- Walken 5
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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