Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Fears, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Louis Fears registered to vote in Shelby County on August 7, 1867. He reported Virginia as his birthplace and 7 years in Texas. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Virginia
- Birthplace
- 7 years
- In Texas
- about 1860
- Reached Texas
- 6 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1860 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Louis Fears
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Fears
- Place of birth
- Virginia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 7 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 6 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jones x Fears"
Elsewhere in Texas
6 yearsLouis Fears reported 6 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Fearses 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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