Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Oliver Miller, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Oliver Miller registered to vote in Fayette County on November 19, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 11 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.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 11 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Oliver Miller
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Oliver Miller
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 19, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 11 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsOliver Miller reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Millers 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 62 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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