Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ransom Jarmon, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Ransom Jarmon registered to vote in Fayette County on July 25, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 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
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Ransom Jarmon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ransom Jarmon
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Jarmon in Fayette County
- Abe Jarmonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
- Ben Jarmonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
- Charles Jarmonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1854
- Charlie Jarmonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1852
- Jim Jarmonborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1853
Jarmons 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 24 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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