Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shedrick Waller, Austin County, Texas, 1867
Shedrick Waller registered to vote in Austin County on August 27, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 9 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
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Shedrick Waller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shedrick Waller
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- August 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Austin County
- 9 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsShedrick Waller reported 11 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Waller in Austin County
- Dabney Wallerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1839
Wallers 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 36 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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