Hill County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Volt Starks, Hill County, Texas, 1867
Volt Starks registered to vote in Hill County on August 5, 1867. He reported Kentucky as his birthplace and 8 years in Texas, 6 of them in Hill County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Hill County registered 159 freedmen in 1867, 17% of its voters.
- Kentucky
- Birthplace
- 8 years
- In Texas
- 6 years
- In the county
- about 1859
- Reached Texas
- 2 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1859 to 1870
Volt Starks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Volt Starks
- Place of birth
- Kentucky
- County of registration
- Hill County
- Precinct
- Towash
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 8 years
- Years in Hill County
- 6 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 years
- Years in Texas before Hill County
- 2 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
2 yearsVolt Starks reported 2 years more in Texas than in Hill County.
Other freedmen named Starks in Hill County
- James Starksborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1855
Starkses 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 5 of the Hill County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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