Guadalupe County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ed Sheffield, Guadalupe County, Texas, 1867
Ed Sheffield registered to vote in Guadalupe County on July 11, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Guadalupe County registered 508 freedmen in 1867, 38% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Guadalupe County
Ed Sheffield
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ed Sheffield
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Guadalupe County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Guadalupe County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sheffield in Guadalupe County
- Bob Sheffieldborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
- Ephraim Sheffieldborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
- John Sheffieldborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Sheffields 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. Guadalupe County's entries fill 34 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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