Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Joseph Sykes, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Joseph Sykes registered to vote in Walker County on November 16, 1869. He reported Alabama as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Alabama
- Birthplace
- about 1869
- Reached Texas
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Walker County
Joseph Sykes
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Joseph Sykes
- Place of birth
- Alabama
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 2
- Registered
- November 16, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 6 months
- Years in Walker County
- 6 months
- Years in the precinct
- 6 months
- Signature, as written
- "Joseph X Sykes"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Sykeses 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 40 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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