Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Walker Baylor, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Walker Baylor registered to vote in Fayette County on August 13, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Walker Baylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Walker Baylor
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsWalker Baylor reported 20 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Baylor in Fayette County
- Armistead Baylorborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1841
- Henry Baylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1853
Baylors 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 40 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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