Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Carter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Willis Carter registered to vote in Fayette County on August 10, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 27 years in Texas, 27 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 27 years
- In Texas
- 27 years
- In the county
- about 1840
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1840 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Willis Carter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Carter
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 27 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 27 years
- Years in the precinct
- 27 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Carter in Fayette County
- Charles Carterborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1839
- George Carterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1860
- Lambest Carterborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1858
Carters 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 36 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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