Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Watron Glover, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Watron Glover registered to vote in Austin County on August 27, 1867. He reported South Carolina 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.
- South Carolina
- 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
Watron Glover
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Watron Glover
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Austin County
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Glover in Austin County
- August Gloverborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1867
- Bunyerard Gloverborn in Alabama
- Cam Gloverborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1854
- Darvis Gloverborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1859
- George Gloverborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1867
Glovers 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 37 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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