GeoCoords:
Latitude: 28.509637000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
County:
- Goliad
Date:
March 1842
Time Period:
Description:
Johnson and Mary Gilleland are killed by Comanches at their home near Carlos Rancho, twelve miles south of Goliad. Their two children, Rebecca and William, are captured, but recovered by Texas rangers under Albert Sidney Johnston the following day.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 50.
“Capture and Rescue of Mrs. Rebecca J. Fisher, Nee Gilleland,” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, January 1900, 209-13.
Rebecca Gilleland Original Title: Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher
Image Viewed: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Woman_of_the_Century.djvu/296
Image Accessed: May 15, 2019
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 28.509637000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
Longitude: -97.398419000000
County:
- Goliad
Date:
March 1842
Event Description:
Johnson and Mary Gilleland are killed by Comanches at their home near Carlos Rancho, twelve miles south of Goliad. Their two children, Rebecca and William, are captured, but recovered by Texas rangers under Albert Sidney Johnston the following day.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
Gender:
male
female
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Eugene Hollon and Ruth Lapham Butler, eds. William Bollaert’s Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956), 50.
“Capture and Rescue of Mrs. Rebecca J. Fisher, Nee Gilleland,” Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, January 1900, 209-13.
Rebecca Gilleland Original Title: Rebecca Jane Gilleland Fisher
Image Viewed: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Woman_of_the_Century.djvu/296
Image Accessed: May 15, 2019