Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Buck, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Buck registered to vote in Austin County on August 19, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 18 years in Texas, 18 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Austin County
Lewis Buck
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Buck
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in Austin County
- 18 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Buck in Austin County
- James Buckborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
Bucks 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 27 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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