Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison Bean, Fayette County, Texas, 1868
Madison Bean registered to vote in Fayette County on January 30, 1868. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 1 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 9 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Madison Bean
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison Bean
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
9 yearsMadison Bean reported 9 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Bean in Fayette County
- Marion Beanborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1857
- William Beanborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1864
Beans 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 57 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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