Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Merit Woodley, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Merit Woodley registered to vote in Fayette County on July 11, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas, 2 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- 2 years
- In the county
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Merit Woodley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Merit Woodley
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- July 11, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 2 years
- Years in the precinct
- 2 years
- Years in Texas before Fayette County
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsMerit Woodley reported 3 years more in Texas than in Fayette County.
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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