Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lane Shields, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Lane Shields registered to vote in Fayette County on July 25, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 20 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
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
Lane Shields
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lane Shields
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 8 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsLane Shields reported 8 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Shields in Fayette County
- Abram Shieldsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1832
- Frank Shieldsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1847
- George Shieldsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1843
- Henry Shieldsborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1843
- Henry Shieldsborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1859
Shieldses 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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