Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Sterling Jones, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Sterling Jones registered to vote in Shelby County on August 7, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 10 years in Texas, 10 of them in Shelby County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 10 years
- In Texas
- 10 years
- In the county
- about 1857
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1857 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Sterling Jones
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Sterling Jones
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 10 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 10 years
- Years in the precinct
- 10 years
- Signature, as written
- "Sterling x Jones"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Jones in Shelby County
- Ampy Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
- Shedrick Jonesborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1849
Joneses 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 10 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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