Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sam Tucker, Fayette County, Texas, 1869
Sam Tucker registered to vote in Fayette County on November 22, 1869. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 3 years in Texas, 3 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 3 years
- In Texas
- 3 years
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Sam Tucker
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sam Tucker
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- November 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 3 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 3 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Tucker in Fayette County
- Lee Tuckerborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1861
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 64 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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