Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Armstead Cox, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Armstead Cox registered to vote in Austin County on August 30, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Austin County
Armstead Cox
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Armstead Cox
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Austin County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Cox in Austin County
- Henry Coxborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1844
Coxes 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 39 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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