Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Burlington Wesley Rimes

Full Name: Burlington Wesley Rimes
Birth date: 1833
Death date: March 16, 1906

Photograph. B.W. Rimes, State Preservation Board
Photograph. B.W. Rimes, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs

Confederate States Army, Captain William P. Townsend's Company, 4th Regiment, Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade, enlisted 7/15/1861. Burlington Wesley Rimes, death date 3/16/1906, marriage to Mrs. A.W. Rimes in Lunenberg, Virginia, on 10/3/1888. Includes Austin Statesman biographical sketch, 5/7/1904. Mrs. Anna W. Rimes death date 3/8/1936, application for mortuary warrant. Pension File No. 36132, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
B.W. Rimes, Marlin, Falls County, born in Mississippi, lawyer, age 36 [born ca. 1837]. Directory of the Members of the Thirteenth Legislature of the State of Texas 1873.
Burlington Wesley Rimes, born 1833 in Pike County, Mississippi; died 1906 in San Angelo, Texas; burial in Calvary Cemetery, Marlin, Falls County, next to Tina Parker Rimes. Find a Grave .
Obituary, "Burial of Judge Rimes: A Notable Legislator, Public Prosecutor, District Judge, a Friend Who Stuck, and a Mason," Tuesday, 3/20/1906, p. 7. "Information was received Saturday [3/18/1906] announcing the death of Judge Rimes." Married to Miss Tina Parker in the early 1870s, who died about 1884; after moving to San Angelo, married Mrs. Moon who survives him. Galveston Daily News .
Obituary, "Texas Deaths: B.W. Rimes at San Angelo," The Houston Post, 3/20/1906, p. 3. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .