Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Baird, Cooke County, Texas, 1868
Joseph Baird registered to vote in Cooke County on January 31, 1868. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 11 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Gone" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Joseph Baird
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Baird
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "Sanford David"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Gone"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsJoseph Baird reported 10 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Bairds 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 15 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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