Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Dobkins, Cooke County, Texas, 1868
Dobkins registered to vote in Cooke County on January 31, 1868. He reported Tennessee 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.
- Tennessee
- 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
Dobkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Dobkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 31, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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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