Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Elvin Woods, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Elvin Woods registered to vote in Fayette County on August 14, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas, 9 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- 9 years
- In the county
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Elvin Woods
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Elvin Woods
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 14, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 9 years
- Years in the precinct
- 9 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Woodses elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Woods
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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