Terms of Service

• House, 12th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  2/12/1870 - 1/14/1873
   
  

(1) 12th Legislature, Provisional Session - Qualified and took the oath of office on 2/12/1870, pp. 15-16. House Journal .
(2) Party affiliation, Radical. Texas Almanac for . . . and Emigrant's Guide to Texas .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

• Census of 1870 - William Sheriff, Fort Bend County, age 53, born circa 1817 in West India, retired merchant. FamilySearch . 1870
• Wm. Sheriff, birth date 1/14/1818, death date 2/21/1889, burial in Fulshear Cemetery, Fulshear, Fort Bend County. Find a Grave .
• Minority report from the Committee on Lawlessness and Violence includes letter from Judge William Sheriff regarding the murder of his son-in-law Wheelock H. Upton," 8/6/1868, pp. 674-677, crediting the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. Journal of the Reconstruction Convention, Which Met at Austin, Texas, June 1, A.D., 1868 1870.
• "A History of Refugio County," The Refugio Timely Remarks, 10/21/1932, p. 4. Included in list of chief justices of Refugio County, "William Sheriff - 1865."
  "Reconstruction," The Refugio Timely Remarks, 12/10/1937, p. 4, crediting Dennis M. O'Connor Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . 1932 1937

Committee Information

• 12th R.S. - 1871
• Agriculture and Stock Raising  
• House Employees, Regulate Pay of  
• Penitentiary  
• State Affairs  
• 12th 1st C.S. - 1870
• Agriculture and Stock Raising  
• House Officer and Employee Compensation, Select  
• Penitentiary