Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Shedvac Sikes, Walker County, Texas, 1867
Shedvac Sikes registered to vote in Walker County on August 26, 1867. He reported Alabama as his birthplace and 13 years in Texas, 13 of them in Walker County. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- 13 years
- In Texas
- 13 years
- In the county
- about 1854
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From about 1854 to 1870
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In Walker County
Shedvac Sikes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Shedvac Sikes
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 4
- Registered
- August 26, 1867
- Years in Texas
- 13 years
- Years in Walker County
- 13 years
- Years in the precinct
- 13 years
- Signature, as written
- "S. X Blue"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Sikes in Walker County
- Doctor Sikesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1854
- Edom Sikesborn in Georgia, reached Texas about 1857
- Horton Sikesborn in Alabama, reached Texas about 1851
Sikeses 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 Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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