Lawler, Howard and several other citizens of Refugio are killed by Comanches.
Date: 1838 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.314205000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Longitude: -97.270216000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (Woodsboro, TX: The Rooke Foundation, Inc., 1953), 434.
Event Type:
Date: January 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Indians, probably Comanches, in the process of stealing horses, kill John Eagleston on the streets of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.112855000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Longitude: -97.310966000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 88.
Event Type:
Date: Early 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two settlers (Hart and Weaver) are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, in a nighttime raid of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.099751000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Longitude: -97.293741000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American James Pearson, his wife, daughter, and one son are killed by Caddos ten miles south of present-day Marshall. An eight-year-old son, Thomas Pearson, survives. Two years later he is found living among the Comanches and returned to his family.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.444553000000
Longitude: -94.333986000000
Longitude: -94.333986000000
Citation:
Frederich Benjamin Page, Prairiedom: Rambles and Scrambles in Texas or New Estrémadura (New York: Paine & Burgess, 1845), 50.
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers, 1825-1843 (Austin: Texas State Library, 1959), 1:114.
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Henry Moss is killed by Indians along the Brazos River, sixty miles above Washington (near present-day Calvert).
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.969101000000
Longitude: -96.765478000000
Longitude: -96.765478000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 4:420.
Telegraph and Texas Register, April 25, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: May 1838
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 party of settlers is attacked by Indians near Tenoxtitlan, 14 miles northeast of present-day Caldwell. Two settlers (Bigham and Reed) and one Indian are killed. A third Anglo, Mr. Lawson, is severely wounded.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.625371000000
Longitude: -96.877154000000
Longitude: -96.877154000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, May 30, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: June 29, 1838
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 38 Comanches appear on the outskirts of San Antonio, where they kill two Mexicans and capture a Mexican boy.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.274867000000
Longitude: -98.631309000000
Longitude: -98.631309000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 97.
Event Type:
Date: June 30, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Two male residents of San Antonio, a German and a Mexican, are killed by Comanches four miles outside town.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.713815000000
Longitude: -98.749997000000
Longitude: -98.749997000000
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, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 267.
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 97.
Event Type:
Date: July 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Caddo skirmish with 19 Texans over stolen horses on Cypress Creek, near the Angelina River, two miles southeast of present-day Zavalla. Three Caddos are killed.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.894692000000
Longitude: -94.196498000000
Longitude: -94.196498000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar. Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 3:277.
Event Type:
Date: July 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Joseph Harris is killed by Indians, probably Comanches, at his farm on Ecleto Creek, just west of present-day Runge.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.876872000000
Longitude: -97.746789000000
Longitude: -97.746789000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio, 1952), 71.
Event Type:
Date: August 13, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two Indians are killed by Anglos after stealing horses from a settlement on the Lavaca River.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.405162000000
Longitude: -96.912961000000
Longitude: -96.912961000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 1, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: September 1838
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 several whites on the Lavaca River in retribution for stealing the Indians’ horses, which they had earlier stolen from Mexican merchants.
Tribe: Tonkawas
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.363404000000
Longitude: -96.912474000000
Longitude: -96.912474000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 29, 1838.
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 59
Event Type:
Date: September 11, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Mr. Davis is killed by Comanches near the home of B. D. McClure in Gonzales.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.498731000000
Longitude: -97.435384000000
Longitude: -97.435384000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 6, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: September 21, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: White Samuel S. Washburn killed on Bois d’Arc creek near present-day Orangeville.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.512256000000
Longitude: -96.360552000000
Longitude: -96.360552000000
Citation:
Rex Wallace Strickland,” History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 289.
Event Type:
Date: Early October 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Two Mexicans militia men (defensores) are killed on the Nueces River near San Patricio by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.918880000000
Longitude: -97.859706000000
Longitude: -97.859706000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, October 13, 1838.
Event Type:
Date: October 18, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Eleven Kickapoos raid the home of John Edens on San Pedro Creek, 13 miles northeast of present-day Crockett. Three Anglo women and four children are killed.
Tribe: Kickapoos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.495166000000
Longitude: -95.382584000000
Longitude: -95.382584000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 57.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:81-83.
Event Type:
Date: October 20, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A volunteer party from San Antonio under Capt. Benjamin Franklin Cage on its way to Leon Creek in response to the attack on a surveying party earlier that day is attacked by Comanches three miles north of San Antonio. Eight Texans are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.414714000000
Longitude: -98.541445000000
Longitude: -98.541445000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:83-8.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 81.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:230.
Event Type:
Date: November 24, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Indians, probably Comanches, raid the Chandler farm 18 miles above Bastrop, but only succeed in killing several cattle.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.249657000000
Longitude: -97.278542000000
Longitude: -97.278542000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:97.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Bastrop residents on a buffalo hunt is attacked by Indians, probably Comanches, near Young’s Settlement, four miles south of present-day Elgin. One Anglo and one Indian are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.284693000000
Longitude: -97.318879000000
Longitude: -97.318879000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 89.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White An Indian raiding party, probably Comanche, steals 60 horses, as well as washing hanging out to dry, from the residents of Bastrop. A skirmish with seven Bastrop residents follows, with no reported casualties.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.108154000000
Longitude: -97.282898000000
Longitude: -97.282898000000
Citation:
Wilbarger, John Wesley. Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 90.
Event Type: