Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Rufus Grant, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Rufus Grant registered to vote in Fayette County on July 10, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 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
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Rufus Grant
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Rufus Grant
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Grant in Fayette County
- Cyrus Grantborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
- Warren Grantborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Grants 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 4 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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