Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison Tucker, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Madison Tucker registered to vote in Austin County on November 24, 1869. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 2 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1856
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1856 to 1870
Madison Tucker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison Tucker
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 24, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Austin County
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsMadison Tucker reported 11 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Tucker in Austin County
- Daniel Tuckerborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1859
Tuckers 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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