Austin colonist James Lyons is killed by a party of Comanches on his farm, a few miles south of present-day Schulenburg. His son, Warren Lyons, is captured, and lives with the Comanches for ten years before returning to his family.
Date: Summer 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.613376000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Citation:
Benjamin Dolbeare, A Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster among the Camanche Indians in Texas: with an account of the Massacre of John Webster and his Party, as related by Mrs. Webster (New Haven: Yale University Library, 1986), 12.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: August 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) “Cherokee” John Williams, a noted horse thief, is killed in a Cherokee village. Exact location unknown, but approximately 30 miles north of Nacogdoches.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.720669000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Citation:
House Executive Documents, 25th Congress, 2nd sess., No. 351, 776.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 11:252.
Event Type:
Date: August-September 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John H. Moore leads 175 colonists on a two month campaign against the Tawakonis (Wichita). Skirmishes with Tawakonis near the headwaters of the Trinity River near present-day Dallas result in two Indians killed, including a female prisoner.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.677784000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Longitude: -96.529611000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:31.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:21-29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Henderson K. Yoakum, History of Texas: from its First Settlement in 1865 to its Annexation to the United States in 1846 (Austin: Steck Co., 1953), 1:352.
Event Type:
Date: September 30, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Coushatta Indian killed by Anglo-Texans at Gonzales.
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.493164000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Longitude: -97.441444000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:5.
Event Type:
Date: October 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Cherokees are killed in Cherokee territory, roughly thirty miles north of Nacogdoches, possibly by Anglo-American surveyors.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.009037000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Citation:
Mosley Baker and F. W. Johnson, “Report of Messrs. Baker and Johnson to the Chairman of the General Council of Texas,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 7, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Margaret McClellan and her two children are captured by Indians in Robertson colony on the San Gabriel River. Exact location unknown, but roughly forty miles north of present-day Austin. They soon escape and are found by a search party led by her husband a few days later.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.726593000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Longitude: -97.809451000000
Citation:
“Female fortitude,” Telegraph and Texas Register, October 17, 1835.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 190-92.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Edward Burleson and twenty colonists engage in a running fight with a dozen Comanches near Gonzales. Several Indians are killed. A German boy in his early teens who had been captured previously is recovered.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.510346000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 108.
Event Type:
Date: October 29, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Texas soldiers under Major George Sutherland is attacked by Karankawas twelve miles from the Goliad presidio on the San Antonio Road. One Texan, David M. Collinsworth, is killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.647419000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:266-67, 275-77.
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 114.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:48.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 14, 1835
Event Type:
Date: November 1, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of fifteen Wacos (Wichitas) or Caddos raid the farm of Joseph Taylor near Three Forks of the Little River, three miles southeast of present-day Belton, burning the cabin and killing livestock. Two Indians are killed. (Note: De Shields attributes the attack to Kickapoos).
Tribe: Wacos, Caddos, Kickapoos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.973254000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Longitude: -97.402073000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, Matt Bradley, ed. (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 132-39.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:42-4.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 21, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: December 7, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American A large Comanche raiding party attacks Laredo, taking about 200 animals. One citizen is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.519627000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: December 21, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Three residents, Ramon de la Garza, Gregorio Canales and Luciano Benavides, are killed in an attack on the town by Comanches Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.508184000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Austin colonist John Taylor is killed by Indians near present day Anderson.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.490051000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Longitude: -96.003783000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 229.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Four men and one boy are killed by Comanches near the Rio Grande, 40 miles southeast of Las Moras Creek.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.467206000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 30.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 122-23.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 40 Caddo and Comanches attacks two wagons of colonists near the mouth of Brushy Creek, on the San Gabriel River. Thomas Riley is killed; his brother James Riley is severely wounded. Four Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.722847000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 13:38-40.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:71-2.
“More Indian Difficulties,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: January 20, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches attack Hibbins party near the headwaters of Navidad River (northwest of present day Schulenberg). John Hibbins, his brother-in-law George Creath, and an infant are killed. Mrs. Hibbins and a son are captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.711386000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 88-90.
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 198.
Event Type:
Date: Late January 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John J. Tumlinson Jr. and rangers pursue Comanches in search of the Hibbins son, seized on January 20. On Walnut Creek, in present-day Austin, the rangers attack the Comanches and rescue the child, killing one Indian.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.277439000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Citation:
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 119-121.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 27, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: March 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of 60 Indians (probably Comanches) attack six Anglos on the San Gabriel River, 25 miles north of present day Austin. No loss of life on either side.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.429965000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John Rover is killed by a party of ten Indians (probably Comanches) near Gilleland Creek, in present-day Pflugerville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.457048000000
Longitude: -97.639976000000
Longitude: -97.639976000000
Citation:
Frank Brown, Annals of Travis County and of the City of Austin: From the Earliest Times to the Close of 1875, 2:59.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Joseph Reed is killed by a party of 40-50 Indians (probably Comanches) on Davidson Creek, northeast of present-day Caldwell.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.537785000000
Longitude: -96.685141000000
Longitude: -96.685141000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 223.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Near Davidson Creek, northwest of present-day Caldwell, Braman Reed and a group of colonists attack Indian raiding party (probably Comanche) that had killed his brother, Joseph Reed. Braman Reed and an unknown number of Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.563437000000
Longitude: -96.664099000000
Longitude: -96.664099000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 223.
Event Type: