Anderson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Green Tears, Anderson County, Texas, 1867
Green Tears registered to vote in Anderson County on November 24, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 6 of them in Anderson County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Anderson County registered 976 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Green Tears
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Green Tears
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Anderson County
- Registered
- November 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Anderson County
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Anderson County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsGreen Tears reported 9 years more in Texas than in Anderson County.
Other freedmen named Tears in Anderson County
- Green Tearsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
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. Anderson County's entries fill 53 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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