Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Anthony Murphy, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Anthony Murphy registered to vote in Walker County on November 25, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1868
- Reached Texas
- 0 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Anthony Murphy
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Anthony Murphy
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Walker County
- 9 months
- Years in the precinct
- 9 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
0 yearsAnthony Murphy reported 0 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Murphy in Walker County
- Erasmus Murphyborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Washington Murphyborn in Kentucky
Murphys 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. Walker County's entries fill 48 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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