GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.618185000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
County:
- Coryell
Date:
February 10, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Comanches and Kiowas attack Baptist ministers Jesse J. Griffith and John C. White three miles west of Turnersville, on the Bosque River. The two men escape but Griffith dies of his wounds nine days later.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 20-21.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Toro-Mucho, Chief of a Band of Kiowas
Image Type: Chromolithograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 89.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.618185000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
Longitude: -97.789892000000
County:
- Coryell
Date:
February 10, 1860
Event Description:
Comanches and Kiowas attack Baptist ministers Jesse J. Griffith and John C. White three miles west of Turnersville, on the Bosque River. The two men escape but Griffith dies of his wounds nine days later.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Comanches
- Kiowas
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 20-21.
Kiowa Indian Original Title: Toro-Mucho, Chief of a Band of Kiowas
Image Type: Chromolithograph
Creator: William Stinson Soule
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections, Garrett Collection
Image Citation:
Emory, William H., Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Ex. Doc. 108 (3 vols.; Washington, D.C.: A. O. P. Nicholson, Printer, 1857-1859), vol. 1, opp. p. 89.