Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gilbert Gibbings, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Gilbert Gibbings registered to vote in Austin County on July 23, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 4 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Dead" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Gilbert Gibbings
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gilbert Gibbings
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- July 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Austin County
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Dead"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearGilbert Gibbings reported 1 year more in Texas than in Austin County.
Gibbingses 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 6 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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