Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Davis Styles, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Davis Styles registered to vote in Austin County on November 24, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 4 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
Davis Styles
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Davis Styles
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Austin County
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsDavis Styles reported 16 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Styleses 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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