Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Madison Doxey, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Madison Doxey registered to vote in Fayette County on September 29, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Madison Doxey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Madison Doxey
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Doxey in Fayette County
- Peter Doxeyborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
Doxeys 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 56 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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