Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Tool Greer, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Tool Greer registered to vote in Shelby County on July 27, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 1 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 1 year
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
- 29 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Tool Greer
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Tool Greer
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- July 27, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 1 year
- Years in the precinct
- 1 year
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 29 years
- Signature, as written
- "Isaac x Greer"
Elsewhere in Texas
29 yearsTool Greer reported 29 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Greer in Shelby County
- Daniel Greerborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1849
Greers 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 5 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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