Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Cleveland, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Robert Cleveland registered to vote in Fayette County on August 10, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 26 years in Texas, 20 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 26 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1841 to 1870
Robert Cleveland
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Cleveland
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 26 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsRobert Cleveland reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Cleveland in Fayette County
- Granville Clevelandborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1843
Clevelands 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 37 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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