Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jones Glass, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jones Glass registered to vote in Fayette County on August 31, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 12 years in Texas, 10 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
- 12 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
Jones Glass
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jones Glass
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 12 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsJones Glass reported 2 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Glass in Fayette County
- Owens Glassborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Glasses 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 52 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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