Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Dixon, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Louis Dixon registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 12, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 38 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 38 years
- In Texas
- about 1829
- Reached Texas
- 37 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1829 to 1870
Louis Dixon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Dixon
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 38 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 37 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
37 yearsLouis Dixon reported 37 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Dixon in Bastrop County
- John M. Dixonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1863
- Willis Dixonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1845
Dixons 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 16 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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