Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jerry Finely, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jerry Finely registered to vote in Fayette County on July 12, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Jerry Finely
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jerry Finely
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 12
- Registered
- July 12, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 months
- Years in the precinct
- 3 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsJerry Finely reported 20 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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