Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Clark Cole, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Clark Cole registered to vote in Cooke County on August 16, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 6 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Clark Cole
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Clark Cole
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 6
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsClark Cole reported 12 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Other freedmen named Cole in Cooke County
- Samuel Coleborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Coles 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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