GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.654561000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
County:
- El Paso
Date:
December 23, 1877
Time Period:
Description:
On their way to San Elizario to bury the victims of the Salt War uprising, Texas Rangers and a posse led by Sheriff Charles Kerber, kill a Mexican man and wound a Mexican woman in Socorro, twelve miles south of El Paso.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 363.
El Paso County Courthouse ruins in San Elizario, Texas; Built in 1850 Collection: Used with permission from the postcard collection at CourthouseHistory.com
Image Viewed: http://courthousehistory.com/gallery/states/texas/counties/el-paso
Image Accessed: August 22, 2022
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.654561000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
Longitude: -106.303303000000
County:
- El Paso
Date:
December 23, 1877
Event Description:
On their way to San Elizario to bury the victims of the Salt War uprising, Texas Rangers and a posse led by Sheriff Charles Kerber, kill a Mexican man and wound a Mexican woman in Socorro, twelve miles south of El Paso.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
female
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 363.
El Paso County Courthouse ruins in San Elizario, Texas; Built in 1850 Collection: Used with permission from the postcard collection at CourthouseHistory.com
Image Viewed: http://courthousehistory.com/gallery/states/texas/counties/el-paso
Image Accessed: August 22, 2022