Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Gilbert McKennon, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Gilbert McKennon registered to vote in Fayette County on July 29, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 5 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 23 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Gilbert McKennon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Gilbert McKennon
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 23 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
23 yearsGilbert McKennon reported 23 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named McKennon in Fayette County
- Randall McKennonborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
McKennons 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 27 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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