Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Simon Pierce Burns

Full Name: Simon Pierce Burns
Birth date: January 1, 1834
Death date: April 8, 1898

Terms of Service

House, 25th Legislature
1/12/1897 - 4/8/1898
Democrat
House, 24th Legislature
1/8/1895 - 1/12/1897
Democrat

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. S.P. Burns, State Preservation Board
Photograph. S.P. Burns, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Confederate States Army, Colonel, Company A, 11th Regiment, Missouri Infantry. Simon P. Burns, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865. Col. Simon Pierce Burns, Sr., birth date 1/1/1834 in Logan, Ohio; death date 4/8/1898 in Granbury, Hood County, Texas. Donna Jayne Burns Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
Colonel Simon Pierce Burns, "Historical Scrapbook: Simon P. Burns, Military Leader, Politician," 6/30/2021. Taken from A Few Good Horses by Simon Pierce Burns, a great grandson of Colonel Burns. Brownwood Bulletin .
Col. S.P. Burns, birth date 1/1/1834, death date 4/8/1898, burial in Heflin Cemetery, Owens, Brown County. Find a Grave .
"Hon. S.P. Burns Dead," The Houston Daily Post, 4/16/1898, p. 5. "Colonel Burns served two terms as a member of the Texas house of representatives from the Brownwood district . . . ," Confederate veteran. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Simon Peter Burns, birth date 1/1/1834, death date 4/8/1898. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Confederate States Army, Colonel, Company A, 11th Missouri Infantry. Discusses later appointment as Brigadier General. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, S.P. Burns, pp. 75-76. Born 1/1/1835 in Logan County, Ohio. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.