Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burrel Homes, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Burrel Homes registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 13, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Burrel Homes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burrel Homes
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsBurrel Homes reported 4 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Homes in Bastrop County
- Anthony Homesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
- Isaac Homesborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1856
- Thomas Homesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1839
Homeses 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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