Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison Bondrel, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Madison Bondrel registered to vote in Walker County on August 30, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 12 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
Madison Bondrel
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison Bondrel
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Walker County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "M. X Pondexter"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsMadison Bondrel reported 4 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
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 27 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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