Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hannibal Mims, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Hannibal Mims registered to vote in Harrison County on August 5, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 9 years in Texas. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 9 years
- In Texas
- about 1858
- Reached Texas
- 8 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1858 to 1870
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Elsewhere in Texas
In Harrison County
Hannibal Mims
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hannibal Mims
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- August 5, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 9 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 8 years
- Signature, as written
- "J. Mims."
Elsewhere in Texas
8 yearsHannibal Mims reported 8 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Mims in Harrison County
- Daniel Mimsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1855
- Edward Mimsborn in South Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
Mimses 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 58 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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