Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bunk Taylor, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Bunk Taylor registered to vote in Austin County on August 1, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas. 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
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Austin County
Bunk Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bunk Taylor
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Taylor in Austin County
- Charles Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
- Creed Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
- David Taylorborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1844
- Denbo Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Dennis Taylorborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1848
Taylors 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 15 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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