Parker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Arnold Shirley, Parker County, Texas, 1869
Arnold Shirley registered to vote in Parker County on November 26, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 4 of them in Parker County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Parker County registered 81 freedmen in 1867, 10% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Arnold Shirley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Arnold Shirley
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Parker County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Parker County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Parker County
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearArnold Shirley reported 1 year more in Texas than in Parker County.
Other freedmen named Shirley in Parker County
- Arnold Shirleyborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1864
Shirleys 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. Parker County's entries fill 21 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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