Harrison County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Hickson Ross, Harrison County, Texas, 1867
Hickson Ross registered to vote in Harrison County on August 26, 1867. He reported Arkansas as his birthplace and 4 years in Texas. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Harrison County registered 2,773 freedmen in 1867, 72% of its voters.
- Arkansas
- Birthplace
- 4 years
- In Texas
- about 1863
- Reached Texas
- 3 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
Hickson Ross
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Hickson Ross
- Place of birth
- Arkansas
- County of registration
- Harrison County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 4 years
- Years in Harrison County
- 5 months
- Years in the precinct
- 5 months
- Years in Texas before Harrison County
- 3 years
- Signature, as written
- "H Ross"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Elsewhere in Texas
3 yearsHickson Ross reported 3 years more in Texas than in Harrison County.
Other freedmen named Ross in Harrison County
- Abram Rossborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1855
- John Rossborn in Maryland, reached Texas about 1850
- William Rossborn in Kentucky, reached Texas about 1847
Rosses 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 80 of the Harrison County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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