Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rufus Houston, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Rufus Houston registered to vote in Bastrop County on August 12, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Rufus Houston
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rufus Houston
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsRufus Houston reported 19 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Houston in Bastrop County
- Haywood Houstonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1852
- Moses Houstonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Washington Houstonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
Houstons 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 38 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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