Texas Legislators: Past & Present

David Elwood Barrett

Full Name: David Elwood Barrett
Birth date: August 3, 1849
Death date: December 2, 1906

(1) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Census of 1880 - D.e. Barrett, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, age 32, born circa 1848 in Georgia, lawyer.
Census of 1900 - David Barrett, Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, age 51, born August 1849 in Georgia, Judge of the 16th Judicial District of Texas, wife Willie.
Joseph Weldon Barrett, father's name David Elwood Barrett, mother's name Willie Marshall, California, County Marriages, 1850-1952. FamilySearch . California, County Marriages, 1850-1952 1900

Dav. E. Barrett, death date 12/2/1906, place of death Gainesville. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
D.E. Barrett (1847-1906), burial in Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County. Find a Grave .
Funeral notice, "Bailey Eulogized Dead; Funeral of Judge Barrett of Gainesville Calls Forth Tribute," The Daily Express (San Antonio, Texas), 12/5/1906, p. 10, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, D.E. Barrett, p. 256. Born 8/3/1849 in Gordon County, Georgia. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Obituary, "Judge Barrett Dead," 12/6/1906, p. 1, from Gainesville Daily Messenger. Judge D.E. Barrett, born 1847, came to Gainesville in 1872. "He represented this county in the lower house of the legislature from 1883 to 1885 . . . " Whitesboro Record .