Atascosa County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Houston Ross, Atascosa County, Texas, 1869
Houston Ross registered to vote in Atascosa County on November 19, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 4 of them in Atascosa County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Atascosa County registered 30 freedmen in 1867, 6% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Houston Ross
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Houston Ross
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Atascosa County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Atascosa County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Atascosa County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsHouston Ross reported 19 years more in Texas than in Atascosa County.
Rosses 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 10 of the Atascosa County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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