Texas Legislators: Past & Present

George Washington McKellar

Full Name: George Washington McKellar
Birth date: September 17, 1841
Death date: June 7, 1919

Terms of Service

House, 26th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/10/1899 - 1/8/1901
Democrat
House, 25th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/12/1897 - 1/10/1899
Democrat

(1) COLDSPRING, TEXAS. "Coldspring is at the junction of State Highway 150 and Farm roads 1514, 946, and 2025, sixty-five miles north of Houston in central San Jacinto County . . . in 1850 the [post office] name was changed to Cold Spring, officially respelled Coldspring in 1894." Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) San Jacinto County. House Journal .
(3) Coldspring, San Jacinto County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Cold Springs. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

36th Legislature, 2nd C.S., 7/11/1919, p. 386. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. G.W. McKellar, State Preservation Board
Photograph. G.W. McKellar, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Corporal, Company F, 2nd South Carolina Infantry, enlisted 4/14/1861. George Washington McKellar, Cold Springs, San Jacinto County, attorney at law, death date 6/7/1919 in San Jacinto County. Widow Mrs. Julia Francis Adlena McKellar, marriage date 6/8/1865 in Abbeville, South Carolina. Pension File Nos. 22866 (G.W. McKellar) and 36170 (George Washington McKeller), Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, Corporal, Company F, 2nd Regiment, South Carolina Infantry. Military grave marker, George W. McKellar, birth date 9/17/1841, death date 6/7/1919, burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Coldspring, San Jacinto County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, George W. McKellar, pp. 85-86. Born 9/17/1841 in Abbeville County, South Carolina, married Julia F. Partlow at Abbeville, South Carolina, on 6/8/1865. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.