Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison McKinney, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Madison McKinney registered to vote in Walker County on August 29, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Madison McKinney
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison McKinney
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Walker County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 2 years
- Signature, as written
- "H. X Holsey"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsMadison McKinney reported 2 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named McKinney in Walker County
- Jackson McKinneyborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1857
- Littleton McKinneyborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1859
McKinneys 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 26 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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