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Harris Rhodes

Full Name: Harris Rhodes
Other surnames: Harrison Rhodes
Birth date: 1826
Death date: Deceased, date unknown

Terms of Service

  • House, 7th (1) Legislature
    11/2/1857 - 11/7/1859
     
(1) Listed in "Representatives Elected: Opposition." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

  • Harris Rhodes in the Census of 1880, Angelina County, age 52, born circa 1828 in North Carolina, farmer, wife Ellin M., daughter Bettie.
    Harris Rhodes, marriage to Ellen Mary Cook, 8/11/1858 in Nacogdoches, Texas. FamilySearch . 1880 Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
  • United States Army, Company F, 2nd Tennessee Volunteers. Mexican War, Harris Rhodes, pension filed 9/13/1887, pensioner's name Ellen M. Rhodes. FamilySearch, United States Mexican War Pension Index, 1887-1926 .
  • Harrison Rhodes, listed in Personnel of the Seventh Texas Legislature, Members of the House, p. 116; biographical sketch, Harris Rhodes, p. 135. ". . . came from the State of North Carolina, in 1852, and settled at Nacogdoches, where he entered the mercantile business. He was born in 1826." Southern Historical Research Magazine 1937. p. 116 p. 135

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