Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lem Gates, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Lem Gates registered to vote in Fayette County on July 9, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 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
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Lem Gates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lem Gates
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gates in Fayette County
- Frank Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Henry Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
- Isaac Gatesborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
- Johnson Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1861
- Madison Gatesborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
Gateses 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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