Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jake Wormley, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Jake Wormley registered to vote in Fayette County on August 15, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 23 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 23 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
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In Fayette County
Jake Wormley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jake Wormley
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- August 15, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 23 years
- Years in the precinct
- 7 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Wormley in Fayette County
- Abram Wormleyborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
- Iceam Wormleyborn in Texas, reached Texas about 1845
Wormleys 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. Fayette County's entries fill 70 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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