Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Owen, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Owen registered to vote in Fayette County on July 31, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 15 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.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 15 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 10 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Edmund Owen
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Owen
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 31, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 15 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 5 years
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 10 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
10 yearsEdmund Owen reported 10 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Owens elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Owen
- Owens 50
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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