Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ceasar Hunter, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Ceasar Hunter registered to vote in Fayette County on August 17, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Ceasar Hunter
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ceasar Hunter
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 months
- Years in the precinct
- 9 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsCeasar Hunter reported 12 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Hunter in Fayette County
- John Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- Joshua Hunterborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1837
- Sam Hunterborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
Hunters 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 46 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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