Davis County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Alford Spikes, Davis County, Texas, 1867
Alford Spikes registered to vote in Davis County on July 24, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 20 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Davis County registered 986 freedmen in 1867, 35% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 20 years
- In Texas
- about 1847
- Reached Texas
- 19 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1847 to 1870
Alford Spikes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Alford Spikes
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Davis County
- Precinct
- 3
- Place of residence
- Davis County
- Registered
- July 24, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 20 years
- Years in Davis County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Davis County
- 19 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
19 yearsAlford Spikes reported 19 years more in Texas than in Davis County.
Spikeses 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 9 of the Davis County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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