Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Squire Gahagan, Cooke County, Texas, 1868
Squire Gahagan registered to vote in Cooke County on January 28, 1868. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Cooke County
Squire Gahagan
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Squire Gahagan
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 28, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Gahagans 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 15 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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