Elias Brooks Smyth

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Resolutions and Journal entries

• E.B. Smith. House Journal.

Biographical Sketches

• "Necrological," Houston Daily Post, 5/18/1899, mailable edition, page 2, image 2, near end of col. 6. Smythe - dateline Mexia, Texas, May 16. Biographical sketch/obituary - "Captain E.B. Smythe, of Mexia, Texas, died last night at Mart . . . " Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
• Biographical sketch, Hon. Elias Brooks Smyth. Born 1/9/1832 in Abbeville district, "the Palmetto State" (South Carolina). "In 1876 he represented Limestone County in the State Legislature, and in 1891 was appointed by Governor Hogg a Commissioner of the State Penitentiary, which position he now holds." Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893, pp. 672-673, crediting Palestine Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
• Biographical sketch, E.B. Smyth, born 1832 in South Carolina, pp. 110-111. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.

Military Service Notes

• Confederate States Army, Private, Company A, 13th Regiment, Texas Volunteers. Elias B. Smyth. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
• Confederate States Army. Elias B. Smyth, age 30, 1862, Texas, 13th Volunteers (Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry). FamilySearch Texas, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865.
• Confederate States Army, "enlisted in a company of which Captain Sanders had command, which was attached to Colonel Bates' regiment, which was stationed on the Texas coast . . . he again enlisted, this time in Colonel Bradford's regiment, in which command he served until the war was over." Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893, pp. 672-673, crediting Palestine Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Other Resources

• "Texanettes," Shiner Gazette, 5/31/1899, image 3, middle of col. 1. "Col. E.B. Smyth, a pioneer citizen of Mart at one time a member of the legislature and a member of the penitentiary board under the Hogg administration, died very suddenly at that place." Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
• Census of 1860 - E.B. Smyth, Eutaw Post Office, Limestone County, age 28, born in South Carolina, farmer. FamilySearch.
• E.B. Smyth, birth date 1/9/1832, death date 5/15/1899, burial in Mexia City Cemetery, Limestone County. Find a Grave.
• "Mortuary," 5/17/1899, p. 4. Dateline, Smyth, Mexia Tex., May 16. "E.B. Smyth, a pioneer citizen of this county, at one time a member of the legislature . . . died suddenly at Mart last night where he had gone a few days ago on business . . . " Galveston Daily News.
• E.B. Smyth, "Ready to make laws . . . Eighty members present (House)" (organization of the 15th Legislature), 4/19/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
• Elias P. Smyth. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
• Elias P. Smyth. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992, 1992.

Photographs

• Photograph. E.B. Smyth, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 15th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.

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