Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Arch Yarborough, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Arch Yarborough registered to vote in Shelby County on August 6, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 31 years in Texas, 31 of them in Shelby County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 31 years
- In Texas
- 31 years
- In the county
- about 1836
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1836 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Arch Yarborough
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Arch Yarborough
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 31 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 31 years
- Years in the precinct
- 31 years
- Signature, as written
- "Arch his x mark Yarborough"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Yarborough in Shelby County
- Drigons Yarboroughborn in Virginia, 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 9 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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