Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bob Crump, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Bob Crump registered to vote in Austin County on November 26, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 12 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Bob Crump
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bob Crump
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Austin County
- 12 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsBob Crump reported 3 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Crumps 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 64 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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