Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Saunders, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jim Saunders registered to vote in Fayette County on July 27, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 15 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 15 years
- In the county
- about 1850
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1850 to 1870
Jim Saunders
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Saunders
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 15 years
- Years in the precinct
- 15 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsJim Saunders reported 2 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Saunders in Fayette County
- joe Saundersborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1845
Saunderses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Saunders
- Sanders 59
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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