Chambers County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
W.A. Shelton, Chambers County, Texas, 1867
W.A. Shelton registered to vote in Chambers County on August 8, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Chambers County.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
1846186018621864186618681870
In Chambers County
W.A. Shelton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- W.A. Shelton
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Chambers County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- August 8, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Chambers County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Naturalized, how
- "Emancipation"
- Naturalized, when
- "1863"
- Naturalized, where
- "Texas"
- Signature, as written
- "Henry Henderson"
Sheltons 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 1 of the Chambers County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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