Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Pleasant Gibson, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Pleasant Gibson registered to vote in Fayette County on August 14, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Pleasant Gibson
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Pleasant Gibson
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gibson in Fayette County
- Loyd Gibsonborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1840
Gibsons 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 41 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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