Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abe Persons, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Abe Persons registered to vote in Fayette County on November 17, 1869. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 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
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Abe Persons
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abe Persons
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Personses 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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