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Thomas Lawson Odom

T.L. Odom
Full Name: Thomas Lawson Odom
Birth date: March 20, 1825
Death date: March 29, 1897

Terms of Service

  • House, 18th (1) (2) Legislature
    1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
    Democrat
(1) Fort Chadbourne post office closed in 1942. The community was located in extreme northeast Coke County. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Thomas Lawson Odom, birth date 3/20/1825 in Conecuh County, Alabama, death date 3/29/1897 in Ballinger, Runnels County, Texas; residence in Runnels County (1880); portrait. Bacon Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
  • Census of 1880 - Thomas L. Odom, Runnels County, age 56, born circa 1824 in Alabama, raising cattle, wife Loucinda. FamilySearch . 1880
  • Confederate States Army, Private. Thomas Lawson Odom (1825-1897), burial in Fort Chadbourne Cemetery, Fort Chadbourne, Coke County. Includes photo and obituary from Ballinger Ledger, 4/9/1897. Find a Grave .
  • Thomas L. Odom Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
  • Death notice, "Mortuary," Galveston Daily News, 3/30/1897, p. 6. "Mr. Odom was one of the first settlers in this county and represented this district in the Nineteenth legislature" [sic]. Death date 3/29/1897. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News .
  • Biographical sketch, p. 266. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
  • Roster lists name T.L. Odom; biography lists name T.M. Odom. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.

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