Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
BIll Smothers, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
BIll Smothers registered to vote in Fayette County on November 22, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 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
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
BIll Smothers
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- BIll Smothers
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Smotherses 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 65 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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