Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Allen, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Anthony Allen registered to vote in Cooke County on August 20, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Cooke County
Anthony Allen
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Allen
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 10
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Allen in Cooke County
- Evans Allenborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1864
Allens 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 8 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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