Terms of Service

• House, 25th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  1/12/1897 - 1/10/1899
  Populist
  

(1) Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) La Nana, Populist. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. W.A. Skillern, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Confederate States Army, Company H, 17th Texas Dismounted Cavalry, and Company A, 11th Texas Infantry on soldier's application. Includes affidavits of witnesses and letter from W.A. Skillern; War Department memo finds no William A. Skillern in those units. W.A. Skillern, Nacogdoches County, born circa 1834 in Haywood County, Tennessee, death date 11/13/1921 in Nacogdoches County. Pension File No. 21183, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
• Wm. Asburry Skillern, birth date 12/27/1833 in Haywood County, Tennessee; death date 11/13/1921 in Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County, Texas; farmer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• William A. Skillern, birth date 12/27/1833, death date 11/1/1921, portrait, burial in Christian Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County. Find a Grave .
• SKILLERN, WILLIAM ASBURRY (1833-1921). Death date 11/13/1921. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Confederate States Army, 17th Texas Dismounted Cavalry and 11th Texas Infantry ("He was elected Lieutenant on one occasion and on another, Orderly Sergeant . . . "). Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
• Biographical sketch, William A. Skillern, pp. 82-83. Born 12/27/1833 in Haywood County, Tennessee. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.

Committee Information

• 25th R.S. - 1897
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• Towns and City Corporations