Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Watterson Showalter

Full Name: James Watterson Showalter
Birth date: April 1848
Death date: February 6, 1922

(1) "Made the race as a Democrat." Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
(2) Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Census of 1900 - Walterson Showalter, Scott County, Kentucky, age 52, born April 1848 in Kentucky, lawyer, widowed, living in household of father B.F. Showalter.
Census of 1920 - Watterson Showalter, Scott County, Kentucky, age 71, farmer, wife Virginia, daughter Eleanor.
James Watterson Showalter, born circa 1849, death date 2/6/1922 in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. FamilySearch . Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1962. 1900

W. Showalter (1848-1922), burial in Georgetown Cemetery, Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, Colonel Watterson Showalter, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10/7/1903, p. 7. Quotes Showalter, "I lived at Laredo, Texas, where the yellow fever is now raging, for 25 years, practicing law and running a ranch . . . " Newspapers.com .
Obituary, Watterson Showalter, The Lexington Herald (Lexington, Kentucky), 2/7/1922, p. 2. "He was a native Kentuckian, but spent several years of the early part of his life in Texas, where he practiced law." Father Benoni Showalter, widow the former Miss Virginia Keene, daughter Eleanora Showalter. Newspapers.com .
Biographical sketch, W. Showalter, pp. 176-177. Native of Mason County, Kentucky, lawyer. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.