Jasper County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Clark Shelby, Jasper County, Texas, 1867
Clark Shelby registered to vote in Jasper County on August 20, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Jasper County registered 310 freedmen in 1867, 44% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
What the register records
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Clark Shelby
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Jasper County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- August 20, 1867
- Signature, as written
- "Alex his X mark Glenn " " ""
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Shelby in Jasper County
- Peter Shelbyborn in Missouri
- William Shelbyborn in Texas
Shelbys 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 4 of the Jasper County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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