P.S. Sowell

Pleamon Smith Sowell

Full Name: Pleamon Smith Sowell
Date of birth: August 8, 1856
Date of death: March 28, 1914

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 97 Jan 8, 1895 - Jan 12, 1897 24th   Democrat Seguin / Guadalupe   Guadalupe

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House District 97
Jan 8, 1895 - Jan 12, 1897
Legislatures: 24th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Seguin / Guadalupe
Counties in district: Guadalupe

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Other Resources

  • Mentioned in "Early History of Guadalupe County" and "Ancestors of the Author," pp. 430 and 797. "Pleaman Smith is a lawyer and lives at Seguin, and served his district in the Twenty-fourth Legislature as a Democratic nominee." Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, 1900.
  • Census of 1900 - P.S. Sowell, Seguin, Guadalupe County, age 44, born August 1856 in Texas, lawyer, wife Emma H. FamilySearch.
  • P.S. Sowell, birth date 8/8/1854 in Texas; death date 3/26/1914 in El Paso, El Paso County; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Pleamon Smith Sowell, birth date 8/8/1856, death date 3/28/1914, burial in San Geronimo Cemetery, Seguin, Guadalupe County. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary, Judge P.S. Sowell, Stamford, Tex., San Antonio Express, 3/30/1914, p. 4, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Death date Saturday night, 3/28/1914. "He was formerly a law partner of Judge F.C. Weinert, present Secretary of State, and was also a member of the State Legislature at one time." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Photographs

  • Photograph. P.S. Sowell, 24th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

24th R.S. - 1895
Commerce and Manufactures  
Constitutional Amendments  
Contingent Expenses  
Enrolled Bills  
Judicial Districts  

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