Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Roger Quarles Mills

Full Name: Roger Quarles Mills
Birth date: March 30, 1832
Death date: September 2, 1911

Terms of Service

House, 8th Legislature
11/7/1859 - 11/4/1861

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

43rd Legislature, R.S., 4/24/1933, p. 1748. Relatives: Roger Quarles Mills - father, Charles H. Mills - son. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Roger Quarles Mills, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Other Resources

Wartime letter of Col. Roger Q. Mills, Commanding 6th, 10th & 15th Texas Infantry, 11/29/1863. 10th Texas Infantry 2005.
Wartime letter of Lt. Col. Roger Q. Mills, 10th Texas Infantry, 6/22/1862. 10th Texas Infantry 2005.
Caroline R. "Carrie" Jones [daughter of Henry Jones; wife of Roger Quarles Mills; mother of Charles H. Jones], 1837-1907. Relatives: Henry Jones - father-in-law; Roger Quarles Mills - son-in-law. Roger Quarles Mills - father; Charles H. Mills - son. Henry Jones - grandfather; Charles H. Mills - grandson. Ancestry.com .
MILLS, Roger Quarles (1832-1911). Representative and Senator, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
Roger Q. Mills, birth date 3/30/1832, death date 9/2/1911, photo, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Corsicana, Navarro County. Grave marker inscription: "Member Texas Legislature (1859-60), Col. 10th Texas Infantry C.S.A (1861-65), Member of Congress (1873-92), United States Senator (1892-99)." Find a Grave .
Mentioned in Fourteen Hundred and 91 Days in the Confederate Army: A Journal Kept by W.W. Heartsill for Four Years, One Month, and One Day, or Camp Life, Day by Day, of the W.P. Lane Rangers from April 19, 1861, to May 20, 1865 1954.
MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832-1911). "During the 1850s Mills moved from the Whig party to the American party and then to the Democratic party." Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in KU KLUX KLAN. Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, Colonel, 10th Texas Infantry. Handbook of Texas Online .
Roger Quarrls Mills. Includes biography, Dallas Times Herald obituary from 9/3/1911, historical marker, and other items. Navarro County Texas, Genealogical and Historical Website . Navarro County Texas, Genealogical and Historical Website
"In Memoriam: Address of Hon. R.S. Neblett, Seconding the Resolutions on Roger Q. Mills," pp. 45-47. Pace's Texas Scrap Book: Containing Gems of Thought From Bench - Bar - Pulpit - Rostrum on Religious, Political and Educational Subjects, Consisting of Sermons, Prayers, Poems, Funeral Orations and Extracts From Various Sources 1933.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Roger Q. Mills, p. 57. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Roger Q. Mills, pp. 139-140. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Roger Q. Mills, Representative, Ninth Congressional District, pp. 178-179. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
"He announced for a seat in the legislature against William Croft . . . who defended Sam Houston and unionist views against attacks by Mills and other states' rights Democrats," p. 137. C. Alwyn Barr, "The Making of a Secessionist: The Antebellum Career of Roger Q. Mills," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 79, Number 2, October 1975, pp. 129-144, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Included on list of "Texas Know Nothing Leaders with a Summary of Biographical Data Taken from the . . . United States Eighth Census, 1860." The party was active at the state level in Texas in 1855 and 1856. "By 1857 the party had virtually disappeared in Texas." "An Analysis of the Texas Know Nothings," The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 3, January 1967, pp. 414-423, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
"Colonel Henry Jones Dying," Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 12/27/1888, p. 6; Obituary, Colonel Henry Jones, Fort Worth Daily Gazette, 1/2/1889, p. 6. Relatives: Henry Jones - father-in-law; Roger Quarles Mills - son-in-law. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . 12/27/1888 1/2/1889
Biographical sketch, pp. 28-29. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.
Roger Quarles Mills. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Biographical sketch and portrait, pp. 20, 105, Plate No. 40. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch, Hon. Roger Q. Mills, pp. 565-566. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
Portrait and biographical sketch, The Texas Senator 1978.