Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Silas Spikes, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Silas Spikes registered to vote in Harrison County on July 6, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 14 years in Texas, 14 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
- 14 years
- In Texas
- 14 years
- In the county
- about 1853
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1853 to 1870
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In Harrison County
Silas Spikes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Silas Spikes
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 6, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 14 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 14 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Spikes in Harrison County
- Daniel Spikesborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1852
- Warren Spikesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
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 17 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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