Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Robert Strange, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Robert Strange registered to vote in Shelby County on November 16, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 16 of them in Shelby County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
- 5 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Robert Strange
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Robert Strange
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- November 16, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 16 years
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 5 years
- Signature, as written
- "Robert Strange"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
5 yearsRobert Strange reported 5 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Other freedmen named Strange in Shelby County
- Frank Strangeborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
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 22 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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