Terms of Service

• House, 20th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
  Democrat
  

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• O'Brien Family Tree, birth date 10/16/1838, death date 4/8/1920, marriages to Mary Elizabeth Lacy (1860) and Marie Goldin (1875). Ancestry.com .
• Biographical sketch, Sanctus E. Waskom, pp. 871-872. Born 10/16/1838 in Yazoo County, Mississippi, parents John M. and Nancy (Cook) Waskom. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• Confederate States Army, Private, Company A, 14th Texas Infantry, and served in Trans-Mississippi department in Walker's division. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• Death notice, Sanctus E. Waskom, "Record of Deaths, 4/11/1920, p. 4. No death date given. Dallas Morning News .
• S.E. Waskom, death date 4/8/1920, interment date 4/10/1920 in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas. FamilySearch . Texas, Dallas County, Oakland Cemetery Interment Cards, 1891-1999
• Sanctus Emmett Waskom, birth date 10/16/1837 in Mississippi; death date 4/8/1920 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas; retired farmer; parents Jno. M. Waskom and Nancy Cook. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• S.E. Waskom, burial in Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, Dallas County. Find a Grave .
• Death notice, Mr. S.E. Waskom, 4/9/1920, p. 3. "News was received here this morning of the death of Mr. Sank Waskom, who died in Dallas yesterday morning about four o'clock." Death date 4/8/1920. Marshall Messenger .
• Obituary, Sanctus E. Waskom, "Death of Former Citizen This County, 4/10/1920, p. 8. Born 1838 in Yazoo County, Mississippi. "He served in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Legislature [sic] and was a member of the committee that received on behalf of the State the present Capitol building." Marshall News Messenger .

Committee Information

• 20th R.S. - 1887
• Claims and Accounts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Educational Affairs  
• Finance  
• Memorial Resolution for Hon. B. Rush Plumley  
• Private Land Claims  
• Revenue and Taxation