Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wess Harris, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Wess Harris registered to vote in Bowie County on November 25, 1869. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas, 4 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- 4 years
- In the county
- about 1865
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Wess Harris
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wess Harris
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 25, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 4 years
- Years in the precinct
- 3 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Harris in Bowie County
- Anthony Harrisborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1849
Harrises elsewhere in Texas
Variations of Harris
- Harrison 138
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. Bowie County's entries fill 21 pages of the handwritten register. About Enslaved Texas.
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