Burnet County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Samuel Houston, Burnet County, Texas, 1867
Samuel Houston registered to vote in Burnet County. He reported Missouri as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Burnet County registered 54 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Samuel Houston
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Burnet County
- Precinct
- 1
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
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 2 of the Burnet County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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