Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Wilder, Leon County, Texas, 1867
Austin Wilder registered to vote in Leon County on August 19, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Austin Wilder
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Wilder
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Leon County
- 18 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Leon County
- 12 years
- Signature, as written
- "Austin x Wilson"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsAustin Wilder reported 12 years more in Texas than in Leon County.
Other freedmen named Wilder in Leon County
- Simon Wilderborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1855
Wilders 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 Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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