Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmund Spencer, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Edmund Spencer registered to vote in Fayette County on July 22, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 1 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Edmund Spencer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmund Spencer
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 22, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years 6 months
- Years in Fayette County
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsEdmund Spencer reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Spencer in Fayette County
- Lewis Spencerborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1849
- Sam Spencerborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1850
Spencers 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 19 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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