Austin County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Solomon Fisher, Austin County, Texas, 1869
Solomon Fisher registered to vote in Austin County on November 25, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Austin County registered 1,107 freedmen in 1867, 43% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1869
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Austin County
Solomon Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Solomon Fisher
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Austin County
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Fisher in Austin County
- Alec Fisherborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1864
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 63 of the Austin County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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