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William Henry Lockett

W.H. Lockett
Full Name: William Henry Lockett
Birth date: November 23, 1850
Death date: August 7, 1899

Terms of Service

  • House, 19th (1) (2) (3) Legislature
    1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
    Democrat
(1) Meridian, Bosque County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) "Mr. Lockett served as . . . Mayor of Morgan, his present home." Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
(3) Postoffice Morgan. Rules of Order of the House of Representatives of the Nineteenth Legislature 1885.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • William H. Lockett, marriage to Ada Mingus in Bosque County, 6/6/1877.
    Census of 1880 - Wm. H. Lockett, Morgan, Bosque County, age 29, born circa 1851 in Missouri, dry goods merchant, living in household with Ada Lockett. FamilySearch . Texas Marriages, 1837-1973 1880
  • W.H. Lockett (1850-1899), burial in Abilene Municipal Cemetery, Abilene, Taylor County, with wife Ada Mingus. Find a Grave .
  • Mentioned in "A Story of a Pioneer School," Volume 5, Number 12, September 1928. Frontier Times Magazine .
  • Obituary, "Hon. W.H. Lockett Dead," 8/10/1899, p. 1. Mexia Evening Ledger .
  • Biographical sketch, W.H. Lockett, p. 35. Birth date 11/23/1850 in Liberty, Clay County, Mississippi. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
  • Hon. W.H. Lockett, member of the Board of Trustees. Simmons College (Abilene, Texas). Catalogue of Simmons College, 1892-1893, p. 3, crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
  • William Henry Lockett, birth date 11/13/1850, death date 8/7/1899, marriage to Ada Mingus 6/6/1877. Parents Thomas Francis Lockett and Salle Waller Dixon, p. 76. Thomas Lockett of Virginia: Genealogical Memoir 1940.
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