Wilson County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Burford Braxton, Wilson County, Texas, 1867
Burford Braxton registered to vote in Wilson County on July 13, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Wilson County registered 97 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 11 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Burford Braxton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Burford Braxton
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Wilson County
- Precinct
- 2
- Place of residence
- Wilson County
- Registered
- July 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Wilson County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Wilson County
- 11 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
11 yearsBurford Braxton reported 11 years more in Texas than in Wilson County.
Braxtons 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. Wilson County's entries fill 11 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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