Anadarkos (Caddo) attack the home of George Morgan, at Morgan’s Point six miles north of present-day Marlin. George Morgan, his wife and grandson Jackson Jones, Mrs. Jackson Jones, and Adeline Marlin, 15 years old, are killed. Wesley Jones, Mary and Stacy Ann Marlin survive the attack.
Date: January 1, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 31.313212000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Longitude: -96.900295000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:135-137.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 14, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A band of about 70 Anadarko (Caddo) Indians raid the farm of William Marlin on Big Creek, seven miles east of present-day Marlin. The Caddos withdraw after seven Indians are killed.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.319188000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Longitude: -96.776142000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:139-140.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 361-363.
Event Type:
Date: January 16, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Benjamin Bryant and about 50 Anglo settlers track a party of Anadarkos (Caddos) led by Chief José María who had attacked the Marlin house on January 14. The Texans engage the Indians near the Brazos Falls, four miles south of present-day Marlin.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.180085000000
Longitude: -96.881614000000
Longitude: -96.881614000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:141-145.
Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1839.
John W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 363-367.
Event Type:
Date: October 25, 1839
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Rangers under John C. Neill attack the Anadarko (Caddo) village of Chief José Maria on the east bank of the Brazos River on what is now Lake Whitney, fourteen miles west of present-day Hillsboro. No casualties are reported.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.914488000000
Longitude: -97.336875000000
Longitude: -97.336875000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2006), 2:313.
Event Type:
Date: December 4, 1856
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches, Anadarkos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American About fifty Comanches attack a number of Anadarko Indians (Caddos) in the vicinity of the Arbuckle Mountains and Washita River in Indian Territory. The Anadarkos manage to repel the attack, killing four Comanches and wounding many others.
Tribe: Comanches, Anadarkos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 34.423768000000
Longitude: -97.124250000000
Longitude: -97.124250000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 22, No. 40, December 24, 1856.
Event Type:
Date: December 27, 1858
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Renegade rangers led by Capt. Peter Garland attack a Caddo camp at the confluence of Keechi Creek and the Brazos River, killing seven Anadarko men and women. They Indians kill two members of Garland’s party.
Tribe: Anadarkos
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 32.871791000000
Longitude: -98.218377000000
Longitude: -98.218377000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno and Susan Michno, Forgotten Fights: Little-Known Raids and Skirmishes on the Frontier, 1823 to 1890 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), 158-159.
Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense, 2nd edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 169-170.