Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Marion Hill, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Marion Hill registered to vote in Fayette County on August 15, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Marion Hill
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Marion Hill
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 28 years
- Years in the precinct
- 28 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hill in Fayette County
- Anderson Hillborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1851
- Bailey Hillborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1842
- Friday Hillborn in Africa, reached Texas about 1842
- Henry Hillborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1840
- Mark Hillborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1851
Hills 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 42 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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