Deputy Sheriff Joseph Arthur Harnest, Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, Texas

Deputy Sheriff Joseph Arthur Harnest

Brazoria County Sheriff's Office, Texas

End of Watch Tuesday, December 14, 1937

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Joseph Arthur Harnest

Deputy Sheriff Joseph Harnest was shot and killed by a farmer who mistook him for an escaped convict.

Deputy Harnest had gone to the man's farm in Sweeney as part of a robbery investigation. The farmer mistook Deputy Harnest for the original suspect and shot him twice.

Deputy Harnest was survived by his wife and two children.

Bio

Age 34
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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Not available

robbery

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I never knew my grandparents but when I started working on Ancestry, I "met" them in a sense. I didn't know my grandfather was a deputy or that he died while investigating a robbery. I have a new found sense of pride in him. His son was Johnny Eugene and I am his granddaughter, Sherri. By the way, I was born on his birthday.

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