Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Abram Sorrels, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Abram Sorrels registered to vote in Fayette County on July 15, 1867. He reported North Carolina as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- North Carolina
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Abram Sorrels
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Abram Sorrels
- Place of birth
- North Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sorrels in Fayette County
- Edward Sorrelsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1864
Sorrelses 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 11 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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