Hays County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elias Bunton, Hays County, Texas, 1867
Elias Bunton registered to vote in Hays County. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hays County registered 197 freedmen in 1867, 32% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Hays County
Elias Bunton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elias Bunton
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Hays County
- Precinct
- 2
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Hays County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bunton in Hays County
- Ranson Buntonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
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 7 of the Hays County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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