Burnet County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Reuben Shelby, Burnet County, Texas, 1867
Reuben Shelby registered to vote in Burnet County. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Burnet County registered 54 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Burnet County
Reuben Shelby
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Reuben Shelby
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Burnet County
- Precinct
- 1
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Shelby in Burnet County
- Arther Shelbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1867
- Solomon Shelbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
Shelbys 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 2 of the Burnet County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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