Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Theodore Groce, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Theodore Groce registered to vote in Austin County on August 27, 1867. He reported Maryland as his birthplace and 19 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.
- Maryland
- Birthplace
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1848
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Theodore Groce
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Theodore Groce
- Place of birth
- Maryland
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Place of residence
- Pine Grove
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Austin County
- 13 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsTheodore Groce reported 6 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Groce in Austin County
- Allen Groceborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1842
Groces 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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