Meriwether County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ector, Gen., Matthew D. 1879 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 November 24, 2006, 11:35 pm "The Carroll County Times" Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, NOVEMBER 21, 1879 GEORGIA News Gen. M. D. Ector who recently died in Texas, was formerly a citizen of Meriwether county. The Meriwether Vindicator says that he represented that county in the Legislature in 1845 and 1846, his colleague being the Hon. Allen Rowe of Carroll county. Gen. Ector was Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Texas and was absent from home attending court at the time of his death. He was a distinguished soldier of the Southern Army during the late war. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether/obits/e/ectorgen5978gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.2 Kb