Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Shelton, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Joseph Shelton registered to vote in Hill County on August 5, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 11 of them in Hill County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 11 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Joseph Shelton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Shelton
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- Towash
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Hill County
- 11 years
- Years in the precinct
- 11 years
- Years in Texas before Hill County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearJoseph Shelton reported 1 year more in Texas than in Hill County.
Other freedmen named Shelton in Hill County
- A Sheltonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
- George Sheltonborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Thomas Sheltonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1856
Sheltons 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. Hill County's entries fill 23 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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