Burnet County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Arther Shelby, Burnet County, Texas, 1868
Arther Shelby registered to vote in Burnet County on January 30, 1868. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 1 year in Texas. Burnet County registered 54 freedmen in 1867, 13% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 1 year
- In Texas
- about 1867
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Burnet County
Arther Shelby
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Arther Shelby
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Burnet County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- January 30, 1868
- Years in Texas
- 1 year
- Years in Burnet County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
Other freedmen named Shelby in Burnet County
- Reuben Shelbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
- Solomon Shelbyborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1866
Shelbys 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 9 of the Burnet County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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