Terms of Service

• House, 9th Legislature
  11/4/1861 - 11/2/1863
   
  
• House, 5th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
   
  

(1) The town of West Columbia, in west central Brazoria County, was founded as Columbia in 1826 by Josiah Hughes Bell, who laid out the town two miles west of Marion (now East Columbia). It was known as Columbia during the Texas Revolution and when it served as the capital of the Republic of Texas from September to December 1836. Handbook of Texas Online .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Cone, age 33, native state District of Columbia, emigrated from Alabama in 1851, lawyer, postoffice Columbia, Brazoria County. House Journal .

Other Resources

• Horace Cone, birth date 3/10/1820, death date 10/24/1885, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County. Find a Grave .
• CONE, HORACE (1820-1885). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Confederate States Army, Colonel, staff of Gen. John Bankhead Magruder. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Obituaries, "Death of Colonel Horace Cone," The Galveston Daily News, 10/25/1895, p. 3. Born 1821 in Virginia. "In 1850 he came to Texas, settling in Brazoria county and practicing his profession. In 1853 he was elected to the legislature from that county. During 1857 he removed to Houston and represented this district in 1859-60."
  Colonel Horace Cone, The San Antonio Light, 10/27/1895, p. 2. "Colonel Cone was a member of the Legislature during several sessions and occupied a high rank in the halls of legislation." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . San Antonio Light Galveston Daily News

Committee Information

• 9th R.S. - 1861
• Address to Soldiers in the Field (Co-Chair) 
• Comptroller's and Treasurer's Office, Examine  
• Finance (Chair) 
• Flags of 4th and 5th Texas Regiments  
• Institutions for the Blind, Deaf, and Dumb and Lunatic Asylum  
• 5th R.S. - 1853
• Education  
• Engrossed Bills  
• Public Printing (Chair)