Freestone County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Horace Busby, Freestone County, Texas, 1869
Horace Busby registered to vote in Freestone County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Freestone County registered 960 freedmen in 1867, 54% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
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In Freestone County
Horace Busby
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Horace Busby
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Freestone County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Busby in Freestone County
- George Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1852
- Jefferson Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
- Ralph Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
- Robert Busbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
Busbys 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 33 of the Freestone County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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