Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Cranford Jerry, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Cranford Jerry registered to vote in Dallas County on August 21, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Dallas County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
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In Dallas County
Cranford Jerry
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Cranford Jerry
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Jerrys 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. Dallas County's entries fill 44 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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