Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Orange Gay, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Orange Gay registered to vote in Fayette County on July 11, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 15 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Orange Gay
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Orange Gay
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gay in Fayette County
- B Gayborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1853
- Jack Gayborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1853
- Willis Gayborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
Gays 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 6 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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