Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Orville Thomas Tyler

Full Name: Orville Thomas Tyler
Birth date: August 28, 1810
Death date: April 17, 1886

Orville Thomas Tyler, birth date 8/28/1810 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts; death date 4/17/1886; photos; burial in North Belton Cemetery, Belton, Bell County. Find a Grave .
Judge O.T. Tyler, "Coryell . . . In Past Tense: Tyler Was Truly County's 'Father'," by Laura Simmons, Texas History Collection, Baylor University, 3/15/1968, sec. 1, p. 5. Gatesville Messenger and Star-Forum .
TYLER, ORVILLE THOMAS (1810-1886). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch of O.T. Tyler, "Father of Coryell County," pp. 20-21. History of Coryell County 1936.
[Photograph of Texan Pioneer Orville Thomas Tyler] and [Reprint of Photograph of Caroline Childers Tyler], date unknown, crediting Salado Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . Orville Thomas Tyler Caroline Childers Tyler
Biographical sketch, Judge O.T. Tyler. A Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell and Coryell Counties, Texas, 1893, pp. 557-558, crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library. Born 8/28/1810 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts; elected to the 10th Legislature; died 4/17/1886 in Belton. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch of George W. Tyler, p. 390. Relatives: George W. Tyler - son; Orville Thomas Tyler - father. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.