Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Green Oglesby, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Green Oglesby registered to vote in Fayette County on November 20, 1869. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1855
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1855 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Green Oglesby
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Green Oglesby
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 14 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Oglesbys 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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