Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tom Brooks, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Tom Brooks registered to vote in Fayette County on August 23, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 14 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.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
- 13 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
Tom Brooks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tom Brooks
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
13 yearsTom Brooks reported 13 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Brooks in Fayette County
- Silas Brooksborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1861
Brookses 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 49 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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