DeWitt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Austin Odam, DeWitt County, Texas, 1867
Austin Odam registered to vote in DeWitt County on July 18, 1867. He reported 18 years in Texas, 15 of them in DeWitt County. DeWitt County registered 364 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- 18 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
1849186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In DeWitt County
Austin Odam
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Austin Odam
- County of registration
- DeWitt County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 18, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 18 years
- Years in DeWitt County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Years in Texas before DeWitt County
- 3 years
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsAustin Odam reported 3 years more in Texas than in DeWitt County.
Other freedmen named Odam in DeWitt County
- Robert Odamreached Texas about 1845
Odams 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 5 of the DeWitt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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