Kerr County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Blanks, Kerr County, Texas, 1869
Robert Blanks registered to vote in Kerr County on November 20, 1869. He reported Florida as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Kerr County registered 18 freedmen in 1867, 10% of its voters.
- Florida
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Kerr County
Robert Blanks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Blanks
- Place of birth
- Florida
- County of registration
- Kerr County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Blanks in Kerr County
- Theodore Blanksborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1860
Blankses 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 4 of the Kerr County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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