Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Volloney Sells, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Volloney Sells registered to vote in Jasper County on August 17, 1867. He reported Georgia as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Georgia
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Volloney Sells
- Place of birth
- Georgia
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Registered
- August 17, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Volney X Sells"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
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 1 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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