Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Caesar Murray, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Caesar Murray registered to vote in Austin County on November 26, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 19 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
- 19 years
- In Texas
- 19 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Austin County
Caesar Murray
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Caesar Murray
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 19 years
- Years in Austin County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Murray in Austin County
- Quinn Murrayborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
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 64 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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