Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joe Wade, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Joe Wade registered to vote in Fayette County on July 10, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
- 12 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
Joe Wade
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joe Wade
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 10, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 12 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
12 yearsJoe Wade reported 12 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
Wades 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 4 of the Fayette County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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