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James Washington Reese

J.W. Reece
Full Name: James Washington Reese, Sr.
Other surnames: Reece
Birth date: August 13, 1866
Death date: February 27, 1953

Terms of Service

  • House, 28th (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Legislature
    1/13/1903 - 1/10/1905
    Democrat
(1) J.W. Reece, Royse, Rockwall County. "Members of the Twenty-Eighth Legislature, House of Representatives," 11/9/1902, p. 24. Galveston Daily News .
(2) ROYSE CITY, TEXAS. "Royse City is on State Highway 66 five miles northeast of Rockwall in the northeastern corner of Rockwall County." Handbook of Texas Online .
(3) J.W. Reese, Rockwall, Rockwall County. House Journal .
(4) Rockwall, Rockwall County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(5) Royse. Texas Legislative Manual .
(6) Rockwall. Year Book for Texas, Volume II 1903.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Census of 1900 - James W. Reese, Royse town, Rockwall County, age 32, born August 1868 in Texas, dry goods merchant, wife Amie F.
    Census of 1910 - James W. Reese, Rockwall County, age 41, farmer and attorney, wife Amy. FamilySearch . 1910 1900
  • James Washington Reese, birth date 8/13/1866 in Rockwall County; death date 2/27/1953 in Rockwall, Rockwall County; farming, retired. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
  • Judge J.W. Reese (1866-1953), burial in Rockwall Memorial Cemetery, Rockwall County, with spouse Amy F. Reese (1880-1961). Find a Grave .
  • Biographical sketch of James Washington Reese and history of the Reese home, 602 S. Goliad in Rockwall, built in 1912 for James Reese and his family. Rockwall Alive 2004.
  • Memorial, May 1953, p. 357. James W. Reese, Sr., died at the family home, Rockwall, Texas. Survived by wife Amy Frances Pool, married in 1899. Texas Bar Journal .
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