Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Richard Ellison, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Richard Ellison registered to vote in Fayette County on July 20, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas, 7 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- 7 years
- In the county
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
Richard Ellison
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Richard Ellison
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 20, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Ellison in Fayette County
- Andy Ellisonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1850
Ellisons elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Ellison
- Ellis 44
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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Fayette County, Texas
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