Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jerrie Dixon, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Jerrie Dixon registered to vote in Shelby County on August 21, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Jerrie Dixon
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jerrie Dixon
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- August 21, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Jerrie his X mark Dixon"
Other freedmen named Dixon in Shelby County
- Moses Dixonborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1864
Dixons 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 14 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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