Bowie County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Nickodemus Hawkins, Bowie County, Texas, 1869
Nickodemus Hawkins registered to vote in Bowie County on July 23, 1869. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas, 20 of them in Bowie County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Bowie County registered 462 freedmen in 1867, 55% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- 20 years
- In the county
- about 1849
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1849 to 1870
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In Bowie County
Nickodemus Hawkins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Nickodemus Hawkins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Bowie County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 23, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Bowie County
- 20 years
- Years in the precinct
- 20 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hawkins in Bowie County
- George Hawkinsborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1865
- James Hawkinsborn in Missouri, reached Texas about 1849
- William Hawkinsborn in Virginia, reached Texas about 1866
Hawkinses 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 8 of the Bowie County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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