Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wade Span, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Wade Span registered to vote in Harrison County on July 30, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 16 years in Texas, 16 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 16 years
- In Texas
- 16 years
- In the county
- about 1851
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1851 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Wade Span
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wade Span
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 16 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 16 years
- Years in the precinct
- 1 month
- Signature, as written
- "Z Sharp"
- Remarks, as written
- "colored"
Other freedmen named Span in Harrison County
- George Spanborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1851
Spans 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 51 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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