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Compiled by Ron Brothers
Election Returns
Hopkins County
Captains, 1st Lieut., 2 & do.
Beat Number 9
9th Brigade [Texas State Troops]
September 1861
Woodland Hopkins County Texas
Dear Sir
This is to certify that I held an Election in Precinct No. 9 the last day of August 1861.
The Officers elected are as follows:
C. F. James, Captain
B. N. McBride, 1st Lieutenant
Soloman Chapman, 2nd Lieutenant
J. Jno McWright, 1st Sergeant
J. A. Riser, 2nd Sergeant
N. D. Jackson, 3rd Sergeant
John Sparkman, 4th Sergeant
B. C. Jones, 1st Corporal
A. L. Melson, 2nd Corporal
J. D. Teer, 3rd Corporal
J. P. Cooper, 4th Corporal
I hereby certify that this is a True Statement of the Election held by me in Beat No. 9.
J. P. Orr, J.P. [Justice of the Peace]
Reproduced from the holdings of the Texas State Archives. Special thanks to Ray W. James, P.E., Ph.D., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX email r-james@tamu.edu, for providing this information.