William C. Moody is killed by Indians near Old Warren, in the vicinity of Choctaw Creek and the Red River.
Date: 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.720098000000
Longitude: -96.380558000000
Longitude: -96.380558000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:66.
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 402.
Event Type:
Date: 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Two brothers named Sewell attempt to prevent a group of Indians (probably Shawnees) from stealing horses in Warren, Grayson County. One brother and one Indian is killed.
Tribe: Shawnees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.614336000000
Longitude: -94.413379000000
Longitude: -94.413379000000
Citation:
J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 403.
Event Type:
Date: June 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches pretending to be friendly Tonkawas kill six male youths and steal their horses near San Juan Capistrano mission outside San Antonio. Another youth is captured but escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.332215000000
Longitude: -98.455698000000
Longitude: -98.455698000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 91.
Event Type:
Date: June 2, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Indians shoot an Irish laborer near Nashville on the Brazos River, five miles northeast of present-day Gause.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.860574000000
Longitude: -96.679681000000
Longitude: -96.679681000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:49.
Event Type:
Date: June 10, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of approximately 40 Indians, reportedly by Cherokees, kill an unnamed settler and steal his horses on Brushy Creek, 12 miles north of Austin.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.531589000000
Longitude: -97.763397000000
Longitude: -97.763397000000
Citation:
Malcolm McLean, ed. Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington), 17:569-70
Event Type:
Date: June 10, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Joseph Rogers is killed by Comanches between Coleman Fort and Hornsby’s Station, in present-day northeast Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.276935000000
Longitude: -97.687471000000
Longitude: -97.687471000000
Citation:
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 261-262.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:49.
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 202.
Event Type:
Date: June 18, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill James Campbell, a founder of the town of Seguin, one mile south of San Antonio.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.746227000000
Longitude: -98.125021000000
Longitude: -98.125021000000
Citation:
Texas Sentinel (Austin), June 27, 1840
Event Type:
Date: June 21, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Several men are killed between Guadalupe River and San Antonio, including a young man from the Lockhart family. Josiah Power is captured but escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.476629000000
Longitude: -98.132458000000
Longitude: -98.132458000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:65.
Event Type:
Date: June 24, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kickapoos, Cherokees, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Cherokee and Kickapoo Indians attack the Tidwell family at their home on Tidwell Creek in present- day Calvert. Joseph Tidwell is killed, and his wife and three children are captured. They are ransomed from the Choctaws in U.S. Indian Territory in October.
Tribe: Kickapoos, Cherokees, Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.973356000000
Longitude: -96.683021000000
Longitude: -96.683021000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:50, 55.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of Indians raid the homestead of the Edward Hunter family, eight miles east of Old Warren (near present-day Ravenna). Mrs. Hunter, her youngest daughter, and a black slave woman are killed.
Tribe: Choctaws/Chickasaws
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 33.665991000000
Longitude: -96.246103000000
Longitude: -96.246103000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 100-101.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:65-66.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 397-401.
Event Type:
Date: July 4, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black, Native American A young female slave owned by William Clopton is killed by Comanches while bringing cattle in from pasture on Gilleland Creek, twelve miles north of Austin, near present-day Pflugerville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 30.453058000000
Longitude: -97.631911000000
Longitude: -97.631911000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:66.
Event Type:
Date: August 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches attack Kenney’s Fort, a small fort on Brushy Creek, east of present-day Round Rock. One Texan, Joseph Weeks, is killed, and another wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.511758000000
Longitude: -97.637282000000
Longitude: -97.637282000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 265-266.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3: 78-79.
Event Type:
Date: August 6, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Penateka chief Buffalo Hump leads an estimated one thousand Comanches, including 500 warriors, down the Guadalupe River valley. A total of 23 residents are killed in the vicinity of Victoria during the course of the day, including seven slaves. An estimated 1,500 horses are stolen.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.828399000000
Longitude: -97.009904000000
Longitude: -97.009904000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.
Event Type:
Date: August 8, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Following an attack on Victoria on August 6, a large force of Penateka Comanches proceeds to the coast, killing three men, two of them slaves, north of Linnville on Lavaca Bay.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.659738000000
Longitude: -96.635841000000
Longitude: -96.635841000000
Citation:
Craig H. Roell, "Linnville Raid of 1840,"Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btl01), accessed July 14, 2016.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 80.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 26-27.
Event Type:
Date: September 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Anglo settler Henry Earthman is killed by Indians (possibly Wacos) while trying to recover stolen horses near his home, eight miles north of LaGrange, Fayette County.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.023528000000
Longitude: -96.873972000000
Longitude: -96.873972000000
Citation:
Sons of the Republic of Texas (Turner Publishing Company, 2001), 73
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 50-51.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.422377000000
Longitude: -98.496649000000
Longitude: -98.496649000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1: 231.
Event Type:
Date: December 13, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Four settlers are attacked by “Northern Indians” while farming near Little River Fort. One, James Childers, is killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.992125000000
Longitude: -97.390529000000
Longitude: -97.390529000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers vol. 1, 1825-1843 (Austin: Texas State Library, 1959), 118-119;
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:173-174.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A Mexican cartman is killed outside San Antonio while taking his oxen out to pasture.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.431049000000
Longitude: -98.492219000000
Longitude: -98.492219000000
Citation:
George M. Maverick, Rena M. Green and Maverick F. Fisher, eds., Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: A Journal of Early Texas (Maverick Books, 2010), 45.
Event Type:
Date: March 14, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Fifteen Indians attack farm of John Yeary. Yeary’s wife is wounded, while Yeary and his slave fight off 15 Indians with hoes.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.451340000000
Longitude: -95.957807000000
Longitude: -95.957807000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4/1:235-6.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 85.
Event Type:
Date: April 1, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Stephen Rogers, Jr. is killed by Indians at his home on the Navasota River. Eight horses are stolen.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.032690000000
Longitude: -96.248726000000
Longitude: -96.248726000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:220-221.
Event Type: