Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jesse Gooch, Cooke County, Texas, 1867
Jesse Gooch registered to vote in Cooke County on July 29, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 3 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
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
Jesse Gooch
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jesse Gooch
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Cooke County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Cooke County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsJesse Gooch reported 7 years more in Texas than in Cooke County.
Gooches 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 4 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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