Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nelson Flake, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Nelson Flake registered to vote in Austin County on August 5, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 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
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Austin County
Nelson Flake
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nelson Flake
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Austin County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Flake in Austin County
- Jermile Flakeborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Richard Flakeborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1853
Flakes 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 19 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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