Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Willis Tolbat, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Willis Tolbat registered to vote in Fayette County on August 23, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 5 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Missouri
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 5 years
- In the county
- about 1845
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1845 to 1870
Willis Tolbat
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Willis Tolbat
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 23, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 5 years 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 years 8 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 16 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsWillis Tolbat reported 16 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Other freedmen named Tolbat in Fayette County
- Henry Tolbatborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1854
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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