Joseph Harris is killed by Indians near Fort Sherman, thirteen miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant.
Date: December 5, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.059061000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Longitude: -95.096914000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:274.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:113.
Event Type:
Date: December 9, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill a four-year-old girl and capture five children gathering pecans along the Guadalupe River near present day Cuero: Matilda Lockhart, age thirteen, Rhoda Putnam, age seventeen, Elizabeth Putnam, age six, Juda Putnam, age two, and James Putnam age ten.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.100371000000
Longitude: -97.329207000000
Longitude: -97.329207000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:96-97.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 1-2.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-December 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Josiah Washburn, William Washburn, and a third man are killed by Indians near Fort Lyday, present-day Bois d’Arc.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.958496000000
Longitude: -95.753017000000
Longitude: -95.753017000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:113.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 383-386.
Event Type:
Date: 1839 n.d.
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White George Dugan and a Mr. Cox, are killed in Fannin County. Two nephews of Cox, ages 12 and 14, are taken. The youths are later recovered and purchased from Choctaws in the fall of 1840.
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.475235000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Longitude: -96.156147000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:276.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anadarkos (Caddo) attack the home of George Morgan, at Morgan’s Point six miles north of present-day Marlin. George Morgan, his wife and grandson Jackson Jones, Mrs. Jackson Jones, and Adeline Marlin, 15 years old, are killed. Wesley Jones, Mary and Stacy Ann Marlin survive the attack.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.313212000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:135-137.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 14, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A band of about 70 Anadarko (Caddo) Indians raid the farm of William Marlin on Big Creek, seven miles east of present-day Marlin. The Caddos withdraw after seven Indians are killed.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.319188000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:139-140.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 23, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Indians, possibly Caddos, attack the Campbell home on Town Creek, three miles west of Palestine. Mrs. Campbell, her son 21-year-old Malathiel, and daughters 14-year-old Hulda and 11-year-old Fountain, are killed. Mrs. Campbell’s four-year-old son George and teenaged daughter Pamelia survive.
Tribe: Caddos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.737861000000
Longitude: -95.651440000000
Longitude: -95.651440000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 57-8.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:148-149.
Event Type:
Date: January 29, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Shawnees kill the two eldest sons of John R. McIntire on Choctaw Bayou in far northwest Fannin County, ten miles east of present-day Denison.
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.719514000000
Longitude: -96.410471000000
Longitude: -96.410471000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:275.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:155.
Rex Wallace Strickland, “History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1843,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 33, no. 4 (April 1930): 292-293.
Event Type:
Date: February 8, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three men--Bushnell Garner, David Alberty, and Isaac Camp--are killed by Indians, possibly Shawnees, three miles west of present-day Denison.
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.747668000000
Longitude: -96.651718000000
Longitude: -96.651718000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:275.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:155.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 430.
Event Type:
Date: February 18, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White A large party of Comanches estimated at between 100-200 attack the Coleman farm on Webber’s Prairie, 12 miles north of Bastrop. Mrs. Coleman and fifteen-year-old son Albert are killed; 5 year-old Tommy is captured. Four Comanches are killed in the raid.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.227306000000
Longitude: -97.480580000000
Longitude: -97.480580000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 61.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 220.
New Orleans Picayune, March 12, 1839
Event Type:
Date: February 18, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American, White Indians raid the plantation of Joseph W. Robertson on the lower Colorado River in Bastrop County. Seven slaves are seized, including two boys, 13 and 16. Robertson pursues the party as far as the Washita River, where he is fired upon by Cherokees.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.024275000000
Longitude: -97.221978000000
Longitude: -97.221978000000
Citation:
George P. Garrison, ed., Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1907, vol. 2: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Republic of Texas, pt. 1 (Washington, Government Printing office, 1908), 2:122-123.
Event Type:
Date: May 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A party of Mexican merchants, eight men and one woman, is killed and their horses stolen by Lipan Apaches on the Nueces River en route to Aransas City.
Tribe: Lipans
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 28.062732000000
Longitude: -97.041269000000
Longitude: -97.041269000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County from Aboriginal Times to 1953 (Woodsboro, TX: The Rooke Foundation, Inc., 1953), 435.
Telegraph and Texas Register, June 26, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: July 23, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White An Anglo settler named Blankenship is killed by Cherokees near the Sabine River, probably near present-day Lake Tawakoni.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.800948000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Longitude: -95.904410000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 2:275.
Event Type:
Date: July 26, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Timothy O’Neil is killed by Indians, probably Cherokees, near Fort Lamar, an army post about ten miles south of present-day Tyler.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.217023000000
Longitude: -95.298843000000
Longitude: -95.298843000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:286.
“Obituary,” Telegraph and Texas Register, August 14, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: September 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American A small party of Indians, probably Comanches, kill a slave driving a wagon at Walnut Creek, in present-day Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.268690000000
Longitude: -97.735185000000
Longitude: -97.735185000000
Citation:
New Orleans Picayune, September 28, 1839
Event Type:
Date: September 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Maj. Sterling Ross reports Comanches and Mexicans attacking traders along Rio Frio near Gonzales.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.501626000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Longitude: -97.452493000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, September 11, 1839.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-September 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Comanches steal 200 horses from New La Labadie (another name for Goliad). A Mexican is scalped, but lives.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.668325000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Longitude: -97.388327000000
Citation:
New Orleans Picayune, October 12, 1839
Event Type:
Date: November 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Militiamen John J. Earle and Phillip Whepler are killed by Indians on Richland creek, between the Trinity and Brazos Rivers.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.136832000000
Longitude: -97.003028000000
Longitude: -97.003028000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:316.
Event Type:
Date: Winter 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Eighteen San Antonio residents are killed--nine Anglos and nine Mexicans--probably by Comanches, a few miles west of San Antonio. One Anglo, Mr. Campbell, survives.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.472391000000
Longitude: -98.839881000000
Longitude: -98.839881000000
Citation:
Rena Maverick Green, Samuel Maverick, Texan: 1803-1870; A Collection of Letters, Journals, and Memoirs (San Antonio: 1952), 105.
Event Type:
Date: December 11, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Indians (Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, and Caddos), with several Mexicans, kill and rob six Texians on the Old San Antonio Road, a few miles north of present-day Roma.
Tribe: Cherokees, Delawares, Kickapoos, Caddos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 26.498619000000
Longitude: -99.087067000000
Longitude: -99.087067000000
Citation:
Smith to Forsyth, No. 162, January 1, 1840, Matamoros Consular Dispatches.
Event Type: