Van Zandt County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wallace Fitzgerald, Van Zandt County, Texas, 1867
Wallace Fitzgerald registered to vote in Van Zandt County on August 8, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas, 1 of them in Van Zandt County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Van Zandt County registered 153 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1866
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Wallace Fitzgerald
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wallace Fitzgerald
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Van Zandt County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Van Zandt County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Fitzgerald in Van Zandt County
- Cornillus Fitzgeraldborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1866
- Julius Fitzgeraldborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1866
Fitzgeralds 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 14 of the Van Zandt County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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