Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lee Tucker, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Lee Tucker registered to vote in Fayette County on August 16, 1867. He reported Missouri as his birthplace and 6 years in Texas, 6 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
- 6 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1861
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Lee Tucker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lee Tucker
- Place of birth
- Missouri
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 6 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Tucker in Fayette County
- Sam Tuckerborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1866
Tuckers 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 44 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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