Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Morris Miller, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Morris Miller registered to vote in Bexar County on July 11, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored. Registered by mistake, lives in Wilson Co" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Bexar County
Morris Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Morris Miller
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored. Registered by mistake, lives in Wilson Co"
Other freedmen named Miller in Bexar County
- George Millerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1851
- Mitchel Millerborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Millers 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 15 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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