Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alec Fisher, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Alec Fisher registered to vote in Austin County on November 23, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 3 of them in Austin County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Alec Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alec Fisher
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Austin County
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Austin County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsAlec Fisher reported 2 years more in Texas than in Austin County.
Other freedmen named Fisher in Austin County
- Solomon Fisherborn in Alabama
Fishers 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 60 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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