Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Robert Marion Harkness

Full Name: Robert Marion Harkness
Birth date: April 10, 1837
Death date: March 30, 1904

(1) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Census of 1880 - Robert M. Harkness, Frio County, age 44, born circa 1836 in Alabama, stock raiser, wife Sarah.
Census of 1900 - Robert M. Harkness, Frio County, age 63, born April 1837 in Alabama, county treasury, wife Sarah. FamilySearch . 1900 1880
Robert Marion Harkness, birth date 4/10/1837, death date 3/31/1904, burial in Pearsall Cemetery, Pearsall, Frio County. No grave marker photo. Find a Grave .
Obituary, "Our Fraternal Dead," 12/8/1904, p. 8. Notice of death for John Adriance, death date 12/10/1903. Notice of death for Robert M. Harkness, death date 3/30/1904. Galveston Daily News .
Robert M. Harkness. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Robert M. Harkness, pp. 562-563. Born 4/10/1837 in Green County, Alabama. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Confederate States Army, 36th Alabama Regiment. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, R.M. Harkness, Pearsall, The Austin Statesman, 4/1/1904, p. 5. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, R.M. Harkness, p. 267. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.