Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Fountain Gilbert, Davis County, Texas, 1869
Fountain Gilbert registered to vote in Davis County on November 23, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas, 17 of them in Davis County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- 17 years
- In the county
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
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In Davis County
Fountain Gilbert
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Fountain Gilbert
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 3
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- November 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Davis County
- 17 years
- Years in the precinct
- 17 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Gilbert in Davis County
- Peter Gilbertborn in Louisiana, reached Texas about 1859
Gilberts 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. Davis County's entries fill 67 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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