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Aurelius Franklin Cone

A.F. Cone
Full Name: Aurelius Franklin Cone
Birth date: July 10, 1836
Death date: March 18, 1894

Terms of Service

  • House, 15th (1) (2) (3) Legislature
    4/19/1876 - 1/14/1879
    Democrat
(1) Brownsboro, Henderson County, was settled in 1849, and a post office opened in 1892. Handbook of Texas Online .
(2) Sworn 4/19/1876, p. 8. "The following members presented their credentials, and were sworn in: L.B. Hightower, of 32d district; A.F. Cone, of 23d district; W.L. Rogers, of 77th district." House Journal .
(3) Athens, Henderson County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.

Biographical Notes and Resources

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Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, Major, 1861-1862; Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Quartermaster General at Richmond, 1863-1864. Cadet, USMA [United States Military Academy at West Point], admitted 1853; 2nd Lieutenant in 6th Infantry and 1st Infantry, 1857, resigned 1861. Aurelius Franklin Cone, Georgia, U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865; List of Cadets Admitted into the United States Military Academy, 1887, U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935. Ancestry.com .
  • Census of 1870 - Arrelias F. Cone, Athens, Henderson County, age 34, born circa 1836 in Georgia, school teacher, living in household of Geo M. Mcspadden.
    Census of 1880 - Aurelias Cone, Smith County, age 42, born circa 1838 in Georgia, teacher, wife Martha. FamilySearch . 1880 1870
  • Confederate States Army, Assistant Quartermaster General in Virginia; Lieutenant Colonel. Military portrait and grave marker, Aurelius F. Cone, birth date 7/10/1836, death date 3/18/1894, burial in Hawthorne Cemetery, Noonday, Smith County. Find a Grave .
  • Biographical sketch, pp. 85-86. "Lives at Brownsboro, Henderson county," born in Georgia, 39 years of age in 1876 (born ca. 1837), "engaged in teaching." Description of Confederate service. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878 1876.
  • Listed in "History of Legislative Representatives From This County [Henderson] Compiled," from Athens Weekly Review, 11/10/1938. Henderson County, TXGenWeb Project .

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