Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wright Gates, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Wright 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
1850186018621864186618681870
In Fayette County
Wright Gates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wright 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
- Lem Gatesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
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. It sits on page 3 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
African American genealogy in Fayette County, Texas
Fayette County freedmen and genealogyEvery freedman who registered in Fayette CountyThe Gates name in TexasBorn in AlabamaSearch Fayette County by name