Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Frank Gates, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Frank Gates registered to vote in Fayette County on August 13, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 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
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Frank Gates
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Frank Gates
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gates in Fayette County
- 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
- 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. It sits on page 39 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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