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Stephen Chenault

Full Name: Stephen Chenault
Birth date: January 6, 1831
Death date: November 1, 1910

Terms of Service

  • House, 17th (1) (2) (3) Legislature
    1/11/1881 - 1/9/1883
    Democrat
(1) Elected as a democrat, p. 1, 11/4/1880. Galveston Daily News .
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News .
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, Private, Company E, 8th Texas Cavalry, enlisted 9/12/1861 at Houston, Texas, and paroled 5/3/1865 at Charlotte, North Carolina, according to Confederate pension application, War Department memo. Stephen Chenault, birth date 1/6/1831 in Gallatin, Tennessee, death date 11/1/1910 in Hale Center, Texas, occupation: Tax Assessor. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865; U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865; Pension File No. 14374, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
  • Confederate States Army, Private, 8th Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, Stephen Chenault, death date 10/31/1910, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange, Orange County. Biographical sketch from Confederate Veteran, September 1911, Terry's Texas Rangers, birth date 1/6/1831, death date 11/1/1910; obituary from Gonzales Inquirer, 11/4/1910. Find a Grave .
  • Biographical sketch. Death date 11/1/1910. Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers 2006.
  • Mentioned in letter from B.F. Batchelor to his wife, 7/7/1863. Online Archive of Terry's Texas Rangers 2006.
  • Biographical sketch and United Daughters of the Confederacy certificate of eligibility for the Southern Cross of Honor. Death date 10/31/1910. First name spelled Stephen and Steven. Texans in the Civil War .

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