Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edward Sorrels, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Edward Sorrels registered to vote in Fayette County on July 19, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- about 1864
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Edward Sorrels
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edward Sorrels
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsEdward Sorrels reported 2 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Sorrels in Fayette County
- Abram Sorrelsborn in North Carolina, 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 17 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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