Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bob Rucker, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Bob Rucker registered to vote in Fayette County on July 26, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 9 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
Bob Rucker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bob Rucker
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsBob Rucker reported 6 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Rucker in Fayette County
- Wyatt Ruckerborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
Ruckers 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 24 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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