Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Marion Bean, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Marion Bean registered to vote in Fayette County on November 26, 1869. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 12 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 12 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Marion Bean
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Marion Bean
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 12 years
- Years in the precinct
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bean in Fayette County
- Madison Beanborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1858
- 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 70 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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