Terms of Service

• House, 11th ^{(1) (2) (3) (4)} Legislature
  8/6/1866 - 2/7/1870
   
  

(1) Roster of 11th Legislature, House of Representatives, "Texas Legislative Proceedings," 8/11/1866, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Anaqua, Victoria County. "In 1857 he settled on a homestead on the San Antonio River in Anaqua, Texas, approximately twenty miles south of Victoria." Handbook of Texas Online .
(3) Victoria, Victoria County. House Journal .
(4) Anaqua, Victoria County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

• Photograph. T. Phelps, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Hon. Truman Phelps, death date 7/10/1892, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Victoria, Victoria County. Find a Grave .
• PHELPS, TRUMAN (1806-1892). Phelps "served Catahoula Parish several times as a representative, from 1837 through 1840, and again in 1844, to the Louisiana legislature." Handbook of Texas Online .
• Portrait and biographical sketch, Edwin M. Phelps, pp. 612-613. Clerk in the General Land Office of the State of Texas. Born 8/30/1842 in Vincennes, Indiana. Relatives: Truman Phelps - father, Edwin M. Phelps - son. Mother Miss Cornelia McNamee. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
• Mentioned in biographical sketch of son, Edwin M. Phelps, pp. 163-164. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
• Obituary, Judge Truman Phelps, "Death of Judge Phelps," Newspaper Abstract, Beeville Bee, Beeville, Texas, 7/22/1892. Born 8/7/1806 near Uniontown, Mississippi. Also served in the Louisiana legislature. Refugio County, TXGenWeb Project .

Committee Information

• 11th R.S. - 1866
• Internal Improvement