GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.290619000000
Longitude: -97.624176000000
Longitude: -97.624176000000
County:
- Coryell
Date:
Mid-February 1865
Time Period:
Description:
Gideon Graham (pictured) traveled to take clothes to a son stationed nearby in the Confederate Army. He left his thirteen-year-old son, Samuel, at home to help his mother. Unidentified Indians take Samuel into captivity within two miles of his home near Sugar Loaf Mountain, twelve miles southeast of Gatesville. He is later killed.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 205.
Gideon Graham Image Viewed: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/72175991/person/32257317445/gallery?galleryPage=1
Image Accessed: September 12, 2022
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 31.290619000000
Longitude: -97.624176000000
Longitude: -97.624176000000
County:
- Coryell
Date:
Mid-February 1865
Event Description:
Gideon Graham (pictured) traveled to take clothes to a son stationed nearby in the Confederate Army. He left his thirteen-year-old son, Samuel, at home to help his mother. Unidentified Indians take Samuel into captivity within two miles of his home near Sugar Loaf Mountain, twelve miles southeast of Gatesville. He is later killed.
Event Type:
Tribe:
- Unknown Tribe
Gender:
male
Age:
youth (13-18)
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 205.
Gideon Graham Image Viewed: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/72175991/person/32257317445/gallery?galleryPage=1
Image Accessed: September 12, 2022