Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Claiborne Fatherer, Fayette County, Texas, 1867

Claiborne Fatherer registered to vote in Fayette County on July 10, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 19 years in Texas, 2 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Mississippi and Texas marked
Born in Mississippi, registered in Fayette County, Texas
Mississippi
Birthplace
19 years
In Texas
2 years
In the county
about 1848
Reached Texas
17 years
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1848 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fayette County

Claiborne Fatherer

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Claiborne Fatherer
Place of birth
Mississippi
County of registration
Fayette County
Precinct
1
Registered
July 10, 1867
Years in Texas
19 years
Years in Fayette County
2 years 6 months
Years in the precinct
2 years 6 months
Years in Texas before Fayette County
17 years
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fayette County highlighted
Fayette County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

17 years

Claiborne Fatherer reported 17 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.

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.

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