Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harry Mischer, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Harry Mischer registered to vote in Fayette County on September 28, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Harry Mischer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harry Mischer
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- September 28, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 months
- Years in the precinct
- 9 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsHarry Mischer reported 19 years more in Texas than 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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