Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Theophilus Franklin Meece

Full Name: Theophilus Franklin Meece
Birth date: June 11, 1840
Death date: May 18, 1914

Confederate States Army, 1st Sergeant, Company K, 5th Texas Infantry Hood's Brigade. Theophilus Franklin (T.F.) Meece, U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970. Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, 1st Sergeant, 5th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Theophilus F. Meece (1840-1914), burial in Old City Cemetery, Livingston, Polk County. Find a Grave .
Obituary, "Judge Meece of Polk County Dies: Was Widely Known as County and State Official—Veteran of War," The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Texas), 5/22/1914, p. 5, crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library. Judge T.F. Meese, death date 5/18/1914 in Polk County, 5th Texas Regiment of Hood's Brigade, member of 27th Legislature. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Additional information provided by C. Pritchard lists Theophilus Franklin Meece, birth date 6/11/1840 in Maury County, Tennessee, death date 5/18/1914, married Amelia A. Brown 5/15/1869. Old City Cemetery, Livingston, Texas. RootsWeb.com Internet genealogical service .
Biographical sketch, Theophilus F. Meece, pp. 181-182. Born 6/11/1840 in Maury County, Tennessee. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.