Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Lewis Hicks, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Lewis Hicks registered to vote in Harrison County on July 9, 1867. He reported Mississippi as his birthplace and 21 years in Texas, 21 of them in Harrison County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Mississippi
- Birthplace
- 21 years
- In Texas
- 21 years
- In the county
- about 1846
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1846 to 1870
Lewis Hicks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Lewis Hicks
- Place of birth
- Mississippi
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 5
- Place of residence
- Harrison County
- Registered
- July 9, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 21 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 21 years
- Years in the precinct
- 21 years
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hicks in Harrison County
- Austin Hicksborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1846
- Charles Hicksborn in North Carolina, reached Texas about 1850
- Henry Hicksborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1846
- William H. Hicksborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1862
Hickses 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 21 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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