Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Turner Ewing, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Turner Ewing registered to vote in Shelby County on November 25, 1867. He reported Texas as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Shelby County
Turner Ewing
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Turner Ewing
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 1
- Registered
- November 25, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 2 months
- Years in the precinct
- 2 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 20 years
- Signature, as written
- "Turner Ewing"
Elsewhere in Texas
20 yearsTurner Ewing reported 20 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Ewings 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 24 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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