Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jeff Alexander, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jeff Alexander registered to vote in Fayette County on July 22, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Jeff Alexander
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jeff Alexander
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsJeff Alexander reported 13 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Alexanders 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 19 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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