Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Coffee, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Coffee registered to vote in Cooke County on August 28, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 2 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
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Joseph Coffee
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Coffee
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsJoseph Coffee reported 12 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Coffees 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 12 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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