Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wilkins Heard, Harrison County, Texas, 1869
Wilkins Heard registered to vote in Harrison County on July 22, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 17 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 17 years
- In Texas
- about 1852
- Reached Texas
- 16 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1852 to 1870
Wilkins Heard
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wilkins Heard
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- July 22, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 17 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 18 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 16 years
- Signature, as written
- "B Reards"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
16 yearsWilkins Heard reported 16 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Heard in Harrison County
- Commodore Heardborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- David Heardborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Green Heardborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
- Houston Heardborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1849
- Kinian Heardborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1852
Heards 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 40 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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