Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Atwood Booth, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Atwood Booth registered to vote in Shelby County on August 29, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace and 22 years in Texas, 21 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
- 22 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
- about 1845
- Reached Texas
- 1 year
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1845 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Atwood Booth
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Atwood Booth
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 11
- Registered
- August 29, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 22 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 1 year
- Signature, as written
- "Alvord x Rook"
Elsewhere in Texas
1 yearAtwood Booth reported 1 year more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Booth in Shelby County
- Andrew 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
- Sam 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 18 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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