Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ned Howard, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Ned Howard registered to vote in Fayette County on November 26, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Ned Howard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ned Howard
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 26, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Howard in Fayette County
- Montgomory Howardborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1855
Howards 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 70 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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