Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Richard Buckner, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Richard Buckner registered to vote in Walker County. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Richard Buckner
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Walker County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Buckners 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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