Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Freeman Bell, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Freeman Bell registered to vote in Fayette County on November 16, 1869. He reported District of Columbia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- District of Columbia
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Freeman Bell
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Freeman Bell
- Place of birth
- District of Columbia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Bell in Fayette County
- Ceasar Bellborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1857
Bells 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 59 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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