Fayette County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Ephriam Young, Fayette County, Texas, 1867
Ephriam Young registered to vote in Fayette County on July 19, 1867. He reported South Carolina as his birthplace and 29 years in Texas, 29 of them in Fayette County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Fayette County registered 1,169 freedmen in 1867, 42% of its voters.
- South Carolina
- Birthplace
- 29 years
- In Texas
- 29 years
- In the county
- about 1838
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1838 to 1870
Ephriam Young
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Ephriam Young
- Place of birth
- South Carolina
- County of registration
- Fayette County
- Registered
- July 19, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 29 years
- Years in Fayette County
- 29 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Young in Fayette County
- Dick Youngborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1847
- Frank Youngborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1852
Youngs 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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