Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Owen Murray, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Owen Murray registered to vote in Austin County on November 24, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Austin County
Owen Murray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Owen Murray
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Austin County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Murray in Austin County
- Caesar Murrayborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
Murrays 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 62 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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