Shelby County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Bob Wiggins, Shelby County, Texas, 1867
Bob Wiggins registered to vote in Shelby County on August 7, 1867. He reported Tennessee as his birthplace and 23 years in Texas, 8 of them in Shelby County. Shelby County registered 374 freedmen in 1867, 36% of its voters.
- Tennessee
- Birthplace
- 23 years
- In Texas
- 8 years
- In the county
- about 1844
- Reached Texas
- 15 years
- Elsewhere in Texas
What the register records
From about 1844 to 1870
Bob Wiggins
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Bob Wiggins
- Place of birth
- Tennessee
- County of registration
- Shelby County
- Precinct
- 8
- Registered
- August 7, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 23 years
- Years in Shelby County
- 8 years
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Years in Texas before Shelby County
- 15 years
- Signature, as written
- "Bob x Wiggins"
Elsewhere in Texas
15 yearsBob Wiggins reported 15 years more in Texas than in Shelby County.
Wigginses 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 12 of the Shelby County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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