Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Harry Servey, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Harry Servey registered to vote in Fayette County on August 17, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 35 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 35 years
- In Texas
- 34 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1832 to 1870
Harry Servey
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Harry Servey
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 35 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 34 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
34 yearsHarry Servey reported 34 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
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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