Fort Bend County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shelton Butler, Fort Bend County, Texas, 1867
Shelton Butler registered to vote in Fort Bend County on August 26, 1867. He reported 21 years in Texas, 18 of them in Fort Bend County. Fort Bend County registered 1,360 freedmen in 1867, 81% of its voters.
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
Elsewhere in Texas
In Fort Bend County
Shelton Butler
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shelton Butler
- County of registration
- Fort Bend County
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fort Bend County
- 18 years
- Years in Texas before Fort Bend County
- 3 years
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsShelton Butler reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fort Bend County.
Other freedmen named Butler in Fort Bend County
- Davy Butlerreached Texas about 1855
- Stephen Butlerreached Texas about 1846
Butlers 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 30 of the Fort Bend County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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