Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wesley Nevils, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Wesley Nevils registered to vote in Fayette County on August 1, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Wesley Nevils
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wesley Nevils
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 1, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Nevils in Fayette County
- Caesar Nevilsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
Nevilses 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 32 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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