Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Spencer Hornbuckle, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Spencer Hornbuckle registered to vote in Shelby County on August 3, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 18 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 18 years
- In the county
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Spencer Hornbuckle
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Spencer Hornbuckle
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 7
- Registered
- August 3, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 18 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 2 years
- Signature, as written
- "Spencer x Hornbuckle"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsSpencer Hornbuckle reported 2 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Hornbuckle in Shelby County
- Simon Hornbuckleborn in Arkansas, reached Texas about 1847
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 8 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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