Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Mayo, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Willis Mayo registered to vote in Fayette County on July 25, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Willis Mayo
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Mayo
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsWillis Mayo reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Mayos 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 23 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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