Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Allen Betheny, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Allen Betheny registered to vote in Austin County on July 30, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 9 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Allen Betheny
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Allen Betheny
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Austin County
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsAllen Betheny reported 10 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Betheny in Austin County
- Henry Bethenyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1848
- Pompey Bethenyborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1848
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 12 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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