Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Buck Taylor, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Buck Taylor registered to vote in Fayette County on August 9, 1867. He reported Ohio as his birthplace and 34 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.
- Ohio
- Birthplace
- 34 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1833
- Reached Texas
- 33 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1833 to 1870
Buck Taylor
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Buck Taylor
- Place of birth
- Ohio
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 34 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 33 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
33 yearsBuck Taylor reported 33 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Taylor in Fayette County
- Andrew Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
- Squire Taylorborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1860
- Warren Taylorborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1860
- William H. Taylorborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Willis Taylorborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1854
Taylors 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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