Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Houston, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Houston registered to vote in Guadalupe County on July 31, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Isaac Houston
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Houston
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Houston in Guadalupe County
- Caesar Houstonborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
Houstons 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 18 of the Guadalupe County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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