Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Owen Miller, Bastrop County, Texas, 1867
Owen Miller registered to vote in Bastrop County on July 9, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 29 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 29 years
- In Texas
- about 1838
- Reached Texas
- 28 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Owen Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Owen Miller
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 29 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
28 yearsOwen Miller reported 28 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Miller in Bastrop County
- Allen Millerborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1853
- Andy Millerborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- Bemjamin Millerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1850
- Benjamin Millerborn in Indiana, reached Texas about 1852
- Benjamin Millerborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1861
Millers 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 8 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Bastrop County, Texas
Bastrop County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Bastrop CountyThe Miller name in TexasBorn in AlabamaSearch Bastrop County by name