Karnes County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Buker, Karnes County, Texas, 1867
Ransom Buker registered to vote in Karnes County on July 17, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Karnes County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Karnes County registered 46 freedmen in 1867, 14% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Karnes County
Ransom Buker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Buker
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Karnes County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Karnes County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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. Karnes County's entries fill 9 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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