Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman

Andrew Keatin, Fayette County, Texas, 1867

Andrew Keatin registered to vote in Fayette County on August 12, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 7 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.

Map of the United States in 1870 with Tennessee and Texas marked
Born in Tennessee, registered in Fayette County, Texas
Tennessee
Birthplace
8 years
In Texas
7 years
In the county
about 1859
Reached Texas
1 year
Elsewhere in Texas

What the register records

From about 1859 to 1870

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Elsewhere in Texas
In Fayette County

Andrew Keatin

Texas

The register entry, column by column

Name
Andrew Keatin
Place of birth
Tennessee
County of registration
Fayette County
Registered
August 12, 1867
Years in Texas
8 years
Years in Fayette County
7 years
Years in the precinct
6 months
Years in Texas before Fayette County
1 year
Remarks, as written
"Colored"
Map of Texas counties in 1870 with Fayette County highlighted
Fayette County on the 1870 county map

Elsewhere in Texas

1 year

Andrew Keatin reported 1 year more in Texas than in Fayette County.

Other freedmen named Keatin in Fayette County

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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.

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