Walker County · 1867 voter registration · Freedman
Jim Haines, Walker County, Texas, 1869
Jim Haines registered to vote in Walker County on November 20, 1869. He reported Texas as his birthplace. The registrar wrote "Colored" beside his name. Walker County registered 1,373 freedmen in 1867, 68% of its voters.
- Texas
- Birthplace
What the register records
From 1860 to 1870
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In Walker County
Jim Haines
Texas
The register entry, column by column
- Name
- Jim Haines
- Place of birth
- Texas
- County of registration
- Walker County
- Precinct
- 5
- Registered
- November 20, 1869
- Years in Texas
- 12 months
- Years in Walker County
- 11 months
- Years in the precinct
- 11 months
- Signature, as written
- "Tom his X mark Harris"
- Remarks, as written
- "Colored"
Other freedmen named Haines in Walker County
- Henry Hainesborn in Alabama
- Major Hainesborn in Georgia
Haineses 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 44 of the Walker County volume, written out by hand. About Enslaved Texas.
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