John G. Robinson and brother, Walter Robinson, are killed by Comanches near Cummins Creek, two miles north of present-day Columbus.
Date: February 19, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.740425000000
Longitude: -96.544720000000
Longitude: -96.544720000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002),
1:227-228.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 83.
Event Type:
Date: February 19, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanche raid on Gotcher (or Gotier) farm on Rabb’s Creek, south of present-day Giddings. Husband James Gotcher, wife Nancy, a son and son-in-law are killed. A daughter-in-law and three children are captured, and are ransomed two years later.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.148781000000
Longitude: -96.956773000000
Longitude: -96.956773000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:228-229.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 15-16.
Event Type:
Date: March 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tonkawas kill two settlers on the San Antonio River, north of Camp Vigilance (present-day Floresville).
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.155720000000
Longitude: -98.195303000000
Longitude: -98.195303000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 158.
Event Type:
Date: March 16, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A resident of one of the San Antonio missions is reported to have been killed and his body mutilated by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.360051000000
Longitude: -98.478559000000
Longitude: -98.478559000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 167.
Event Type:
Date: March 18, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A party of Comanches kill the nephew of Francisco Ruiz near the Ruiz ranch on the Medina River (present-day Von Ormy).
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.298677000000
Longitude: -98.651050000000
Longitude: -98.651050000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 167.
Event Type:
Date: April 17, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 100 Tawakonis (Wichita) steal 32 horses from Juan Seguín’s rangers near Las Cuevas (Natural Bridge Caverns) north of San Antonio. Seguín’s men pursue and engage the Tawakonis and retrieve horses with no losses to either side.
Tribe: Tawakonis
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.692175000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Longitude: -98.342417000000
Citation:
Juan Nepomuceno Seguín, A Revolution Remembered: the Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín. Jesús F. de la Teja, ed. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2002), 169.
Event Type:
Date: April 28, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Indians stampede horses near Fort Smith, at the junction of the Leon and Lampasas Rivers, five miles southeast of present-day Belton.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.984420000000
Longitude: -97.401521000000
Longitude: -97.401521000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32).
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1: 245.
Event Type:
Date: May 5, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Comanches, part of a larger force estimated at 200, kill one man, Neal, outside Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.863284000000
Longitude: -96.676789000000
Longitude: -96.676789000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 246.
Event Type:
Date: May 6, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A large party of Comanches, estimated at 200, attack a team of wagons near present-day Cameron. Five Texans are killed: Jesse Bailey, David McCandless, Aaron Cullins, Clairborne Neal and John Hughes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.834654000000
Longitude: -96.909479000000
Longitude: -96.909479000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 246-47
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 23, 1836
Event Type:
Date: May 8, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches raid the home of Mr. Robinett, near Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause, driving off a herd of horses. One man is reported wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.837446000000
Longitude: -96.692298000000
Longitude: -96.692298000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 248.
Event Type:
Date: May 10, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A company of volunteers organized in response to the theft of cattle and horses along the Neches River is attacked by Indians. Three Anglos--John Sheridan, Dan McLean, and James Barnes are killed near present-day Elkhart.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.382507000000
Longitude: -94.949720000000
Longitude: -94.949720000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:248-50.
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 23, 1836
Event Type:
Date: May 11, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A company of rangers is attacked by Caddos near the Falls of the Brazos, near present-day Bucksnort. One Texas, James Coryell, is killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.252160000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Longitude: -96.919180000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 250-52.
Event Type:
Date: Early June 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Caddos kill a woman and a boy, fifteen miles from Washington.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.342535000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Longitude: -96.331543000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 13, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White One Texan (Jackson M. Parker) is shot and killed by Tonkawas on the Nueces River while gathering cattle for the army.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.375880000000
Longitude: -98.363772000000
Longitude: -98.363772000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 22, 1837
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two Anglos (Ross and Stevens) are reported killed near Goliad, possibly by Lipan Apaches.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.674973000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Longitude: -97.410150000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, August 19, 1837.
Event Type:
Date: October 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American One Texan (Lyons) is killed, and horses stolen near the headwaters of the Navidad River, 12 miles south of LaGrange. Caddos and Wichitas are suspected.
Tribe: Caddos, Wichitas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.619647000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Longitude: -96.892436000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 28, 1837
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two men are killed by Indians in front of a church during Sunday services in Nashville, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.819201000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Longitude: -96.671545000000
Citation:
Z. N. Morrell, Flowers and Fruits from the Wilderness: or, Thirty-Six Years in Texas and Two Winters in Honduras (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1872), 69.
Event Type:
Date: November 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White McCullom, a blacksmith, and the son of James Rogers are attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, while cutting trees near Wilbarger Creek, five miles southwest of present-day Elgin. McCullom is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.298357000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Longitude: -97.450411000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 238.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Four members of the Crooker family are killed by Caddos near Fort Inglish (present day Bonham). An infant survives.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.578659000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Longitude: -96.183914000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 15:488-89.
Event Type:
Date: December 4, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Laredo civic militia pursues a Comanche raiding party, recovering stolen mules and killing four Indians.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.569837000000
Longitude: -99.560567000000
Longitude: -99.560567000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 10.
Event Type: