Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Louis Mosley, Shelby County, Texas, 1869
Louis Mosley registered to vote in Shelby County on November 17, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Louis Mosley
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Louis Mosley
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "Noah Smith"
Mosleys 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 22 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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