Bexar County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Andrew Owens, Bexar County, Texas, 1867
Andrew Owens registered to vote in Bexar County on August 8, 1867. He reported Louisiana as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bexar County registered 500 freedmen in 1867, 22% of its voters.
- Louisiana
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Andrew Owens
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Andrew Owens
- Place of birth
- Louisiana
- County of registration
- Bexar County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Bexar County
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Bexar County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsAndrew Owens reported 3 years more in Texas than in Bexar County.
Other freedmen named Owens in Bexar County
- James Owensborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1849
Owenses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Owens
- Owen 7
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 33 of the Bexar County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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