Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gabriel Davidson, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Gabriel Davidson registered to vote in Cooke County on July 22, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 12 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored Gone" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Gabriel Davidson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gabriel Davidson
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Gone"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsGabriel Davidson reported 3 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Other freedmen named Davidson in Cooke County
- Franklin Davidsonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
Davidsons 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 2 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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