Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Martin Fisher, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Martin Fisher registered to vote in Walker County on August 30, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 5 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 5 years
- In Texas
- about 1862
- Reached Texas
- 4 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Martin Fisher
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Martin Fisher
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 5 years
- Years in Walker County
- 8 months
- Years in the precinct
- 8 months
- Years in Texas before Walker County
- 4 years
- Signature, as written
- "M. X Fisher"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
4 yearsMartin Fisher reported 4 years more in Texas than in Walker County.
Other freedmen named Fisher in Walker County
- David Fisherborn in Virginia
- David Fisherborn in Virginia
- Drayden Fisherborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1856
- George Fisherborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Lewis Fisherborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
Fishers 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 27 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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