Dallas County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jesse Farar, Dallas County, Texas, 1867
Jesse Farar registered to vote in Dallas County on August 13, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Dallas County registered 399 freedmen in 1867, 23% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Jesse Farar
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jesse Farar
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Dallas County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 13, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Dallas County
- 7 months
- Years in the precinct
- 7 years
- Years in Texas before Dallas County
- 19 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jesse Farrar"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsJesse Farar reported 19 years more in Texas than in Dallas County.
Other freedmen named Farar in Dallas County
- Ephraim Fararborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1854
- Jesse Fararborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1860
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 Dallas County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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