Leon County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Benjamin Shelton, Leon County, Texas, 1869
Benjamin Shelton registered to vote in Leon County on November 17, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Leon County registered 675 freedmen in 1867, 45% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Benjamin Shelton
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Leon County
- Precinct
- 3
- Registered
- November 17, 1869
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "Benjamin his X mark Shelton"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Shelton in Leon County
- Henry Sheltonborn in Mississippi, reached Texas about 1863
Sheltons 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 29 of the Leon County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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