Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Simon Doss, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Simon Doss registered to vote in Cooke County on July 24, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 8 of them in Cooke County. The registrar wrote "Colored Gone" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Simon Doss
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Simon Doss
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Gone"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsSimon Doss reported 8 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
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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