Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Linn Cloud, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Linn Cloud registered to vote in Austin County on July 21, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Austin County
Linn Cloud
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Linn Cloud
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Austin County
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cloud in Austin County
- George Cloudborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- John Cloudborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1838
- Rubin Cloudborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1837
Clouds 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 3 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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