Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Thomas Asbury Hester

Full Name: Thomas Asbury Hester
Birth date: October 6, 1820
Death date: April 23, 1910

Photograph. Thomas Hester, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
Photograph. Thomas Hester, State Preservation Board

Thomas A. Hester, birth date 10/5/1820 in Mississippi; death date 4/23/1910 in Hallettsville, Lavaca County, Texas; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
T. A. Hester, birth date 10/6/1820, death date 4/23/1910, burial in Hallettsville City Cemetery, Lavaca County. Find a Grave .
HESTER, THOMAS ASBURY (1820-1910). Handbook of Texas Online .
Texas State Militia, 1st Lieutenant, Precinct 1, 44th Brigade. Confederate States Army, Whitfield's Rifles, eventually incorporated into 27th Texas Cavalry Regiment, promoted to Captain and Quartermaster in May 1862. Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituaries, "Texas Pioneer Passes: Thomas Asbury Hester, for Seventy Years a Resident of Lone Star State, Expires at Hallettsville," The Daily Express (San Antonio, Texas), 4/25/1910, p. 11, crediting Abilene Library Consortium.
"Death of T.A. Hester," The Hallettsville New Era, 4/29/1910, p. 3, crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library. Thomas Ashburry Hester, born 10/6/1820 in Lawrence County, Mississippi; elected to Legislature in 1872. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . The Hallettsville New Era The Daily Express