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Gideon Smith

Full Name: Gideon Smith
Birth date: April 10, 1815
Death date: February 15, 1892

Terms of Service

  • House, 7th (1) Legislature
    11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
(1) Democrat. Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, 9th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Sims'), Company B, enlistment date 10/14/1862, discharge date 5/26/1862. Gideon Smith, birth date 4/10/1815, death date 2/15/1892, burial in Willow Wild Cemetery, Bonham. U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1970; U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, Troop B, 9th Regiment, Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Gideon Smith, birth date 4/10/1815, death date 2/15/1892, burial in Willow Wild Cemetery, Bonham, Fannin County. Biographical sketch in the Bonham News, 5/4/1909. Find a Grave .
  • SMITH, GIDEON (1815-1892). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Relatives: Nathan A. Smith - father; Gideon Smith - son. "From Slave Days to the Present: A Fannin County Story," 2/28/2009. North Texas e-News .
  • Confederate States Army, Captain, 9th Texas Cavalry; Colonel, 2nd Cavalry Texas State Troops. Gideon Smith. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
  • Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Texas State Troops, p. 35. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
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