Cooke County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Smith Ritchy, Cooke County, Texas, 1869
Smith Ritchy registered to vote in Cooke County on November 16, 1869. The registrar wrote "Colored Registered on presentation of certificate from Grayson Co" beside his name. Cooke County registered 89 freedmen in 1867, 11% of its voters.
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Smith Ritchy
- County of registration
- Cooke County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Registered on presentation of certificate from Grayson Co"
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 16 of the Cooke County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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