Bastrop County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Edmond Shelton, Bastrop County, Texas, 1869
Edmond Shelton registered to vote in Bastrop County on November 25, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored Voter" beside his name. Bastrop County registered 946 freedmen in 1867, 47% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1848 to 1870
Edmond Shelton
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Edmond Shelton
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Bastrop County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Bastrop County
- 1 month
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Years in Texas before Bastrop County
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored Voter"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsEdmond Shelton reported 20 years more in Texas than in Bastrop County.
Other freedmen named Shelton in Bastrop County
- James Sheltonborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1865
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 49 of the Bastrop County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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