Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Seburn Booth, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Seburn Booth registered to vote in Shelby County on August 7, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 28 years in Texas, 28 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 28 years
- In Texas
- 28 years
- In the county
- about 1839
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1839 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Seburn Booth
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Seburn Booth
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 28 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 28 years
- Years in the precinct
- 28 years
- Signature, as written
- "Stephen x Booth"
Other freedmen named Booth in Shelby County
- Andrew Boothborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1845
- Atwood Boothborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1845
- Isaac Boothborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1841
- Labram Boothborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1845
- Moses Boothborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1844
Booths 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 11 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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