Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Deston Walker, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Deston Walker registered to vote in Walker County on November 25, 1869. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Deston Walker
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
Other freedmen named Walker in Walker County
- Alexander Walkerborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Allen Walkerborn in Mississippi
- Elijah Walkerborn in Alabama
- Goliah Walkerborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1859
- Isaac Walkerborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Walkers elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Walker
- Walken 5
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.
African American genealogy in Walker County, Texas
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