Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Whitfield Scott

Full Name: Whitfield Scott
Birth date: March 6, 1842
Death date: November 27, 1897

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

Confederate States Army, Private, commanding officer Capt. John M. Stone, Company of Texas Calvary, Burford's Regiment, enlistment date 4/2/1862 in Waco, age 20. Whitfield Scott, Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900. Ancestry.com .
Census of 1880 - Winfield Scott, Kerrville, Kerr County, age 38, born circa 1842 in Mississippi, wool grower, wife Henrietta. FamilySearch . 1880
Confederate States Army, Adjutant, Company S, 19th Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Whitfield Scott, birth date 3/6/1842, death date 11/27/1887, burial in Glen Rest Cemetery, Kerrville, Kerr County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, Captain Whitfield Scott, pp. 241-244. Born in Mississippi March 1842, died at the age of 45. Kerr County, Texas, 1856-1976 1975.
Biographical sketch, Whitfield Scott, p. 51. Born 3/6/1842 in Holmes County, Mississippi. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Confederate States Army, Adjutant, 19th Texas Regiment, Calvary, p. 51. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Death notice, "San Antonio Siftings," Richmond Opinion, 12/2/1887, p. 1, crediting San Jacinto Museum of History. "Hon. Whitfield Scott, member of the Eighteenth Legislature and prominently known over the State, died at Kerrville Sunday." Death date 11/27/1887. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, Whitfield Scott, p. 268. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.