Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Kit Gillmore, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Kit Gillmore registered to vote in Fayette County on August 9, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 1 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
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 7 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Kit Gillmore
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Kit Gillmore
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 7 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
7 yearsKit Gillmore reported 7 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Gillmores elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Gillmore
- Gilmore 14
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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