Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Wash Hicks, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Wash Hicks registered to vote in Shelby County on July 30, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 30 years in Texas, 30 of them in Shelby County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 30 years
- In Texas
- 30 years
- In the county
- about 1837
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1837 to 1870
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In Shelby County
Wash Hicks
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Wash Hicks
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 9
- Registered
- July 30, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 30 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 30 years
- Years in the precinct
- 30 years
- Signature, as written
- "Mack Hart"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Hicks in Shelby County
- James K. Hicksborn in Tennessee, reached Texas about 1837
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 7 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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