Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Isaac Runnels, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Isaac Runnels registered to vote in Fayette County on July 30, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 30 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.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
Isaac Runnels
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Isaac Runnels
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 14 years 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 15 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsIsaac Runnels reported 15 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Runnels in Fayette County
- Harrison Runnelsborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1857
Runnelses 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 29 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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