Joseph Reed is killed by a party of 40-50 Indians (probably Comanches) on Davidson Creek, northeast of present-day Caldwell.
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.537785000000
Longitude: -96.685141000000
Longitude: -96.685141000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 223.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Near Davidson Creek, northwest of present-day Caldwell, Braman Reed and a group of colonists attack Indian raiding party (probably Comanche) that had killed his brother, Joseph Reed. Braman Reed and an unknown number of Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.563437000000
Longitude: -96.664099000000
Longitude: -96.664099000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 223.
Event Type:
Date: April 4-5, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 60 Comanches (part of a larger group estimated to be about 400), attack two families and several men, former members of the Beale Colony, near the Nueces River below San Patricio. Nine whites are killed at the scene; two men (Mr. Harris and a German settler), and one infant (Mrs.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.936781000000
Longitude: -97.772369000000
Longitude: -97.772369000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas. (Austin: L. E.Daniel, 1896), 30-31.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 126-32.
Event Type:
Date: April 11, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches kill three men and capture a 12 year old boy near Laredo.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.427637000000
Longitude: -99.152067000000
Longitude: -99.152067000000
Citation:
Joseph B Wilkinson, Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier: A Narrative. (Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1975), 145.
Event Type:
Date: Mid April 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A large party of Comanches who had earlier attacked the Horn and Harris familes kill five Americans on the Arroyo Colorado, in present-day Harlingen. The inhabitants of a nearby rancho are also killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 26.245059000000
Longitude: -97.617601000000
Longitude: -97.617601000000
Citation:
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 140-43.
Event Type:
Date: April 25, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches raid ranches along the Rio Grande between Laredo and Guerrero, killing three Mexicans and stealing horses and mules.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.504012000000
Longitude: -99.524485000000
Longitude: -99.524485000000
Citation:
Joseph B Wilkinson, Laredo and the Rio Grande Frontier: a Narrative (Austin: Jenkins Publishing Co., 1975), 147.
Event Type:
Date: April 27, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Mexican rancho raided by Comanches two miles outside San Antonio. Two or three men and women are killed; three women are wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.126981000000
Longitude: -98.418362000000
Longitude: -98.418362000000
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas. (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 177-78.
Event Type:
Date: May 14, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Approximately 100 Comanches kill two men, John Williams and Howard Haggard, working on the farm of Reuben Hornsby, on the east bank of the Colorado River, east of present-day Austin.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.272680000000
Longitude: -97.769008000000
Longitude: -97.769008000000
Citation:
Thomas W. Cutrer, "Hornsby, Reuben," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho60), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 255-61.
Date: May 19, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A force of several hundred Comanche and Caddo attack Fort Parker, five miles north of present-day Groesbeck. Five settlers killed; five captured, including Cynthia Ann Parker, Rachael Plummer.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 31.563820000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Longitude: -96.547920000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837, vol. 1. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002).
Art Leatherwood, "Fort Parker," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/uef13), accessed October 28, 2015. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical
Association.
Rachael Plummer, Narrative of the captivity and extreme sufferings of Mrs. Clarissa Plummer: wife of the late Mr. James Plummer, of Franklin County (New York: Perry and Cooke, Publishers, 1838)
Event Type:
Date: June 7, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White The home of Nathaniel Moore is plundered by Comanches near Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.118070000000
Longitude: -97.283312000000
Longitude: -97.283312000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Event Type:
Date: June 8, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Conrad Rohrer is killed by Comanche raiding party at Thomas Moore farm near Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.120606000000
Longitude: -97.244473000000
Longitude: -97.244473000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 46-47.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,1935), 226.
Event Type:
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Ranger companies led by John J. Robinson and Thomas Robbins are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) on Sandy Creek, near present-day Leander. Eight Texans are killed; eight wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.469268000000
Longitude: -97.906452000000
Longitude: -97.906452000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:157.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 226-27.
Date: July 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Caddo and Wichita Indians reportedly kill nine Anglos near a Delaware village on the Sulphur River, twenty miles north of present-day Leonard. Comanches are also believed to be involved in the attack.
Tribe: Wichitas, Caddos, Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.441221000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Longitude: -96.058956000000
Citation:
H. Allen Anderson, “The Delaware and Shawnee Indians and the Republic of Texas, 1820-1845,” The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 94, no. 2 (Oct 1990): 240-241.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Matthew Duty is shot and killed on his farm outside of Bastrop by Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.109779000000
Longitude: -97.307148000000
Longitude: -97.307148000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 47.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American John Edwards is killed on the road from Bastrop to Washington by a party of 10-15 Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.149442000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Longitude: -96.790237000000
Citation:
John Holmes Jenkins III, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1958), 33.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:156.
Event Type:
Date: August 22, 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Two Texas militiamen serving under Captain John Pierson are killed in a fight with Comanches on Coleto Creek, seven miles southwest of Victoria.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.720862000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Longitude: -97.171201000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837. (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:158.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1836
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Three men are attacked by Indians (probably Comanches) below the Colorado River, in present-day southeast Austin. Two men, Harris and McDonald, are killed, their horses stolen. A third, Blakely, escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.199066000000
Longitude: -97.727941000000
Longitude: -97.727941000000
Citation:
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Gammel Book Co., [1900]), 29.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 259.
Event Type:
Date: February 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A Dutchman named Fotran and two children are killed near Cummins Creek, north of present-day Columbus, probably by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.740100000000
Longitude: -96.549164000000
Longitude: -96.549164000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers, 1825-1843, 20-21.
Event Type:
Date: February 19, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John G. Robinson and brother, Walter Robinson, are killed by Comanches near Cummins Creek, two miles north of present-day Columbus.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.740425000000
Longitude: -96.544720000000
Longitude: -96.544720000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002),
1:227-228.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 83.
Event Type:
Date: February 19, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanche raid on Gotcher (or Gotier) farm on Rabb’s Creek, south of present-day Giddings. Husband James Gotcher, wife Nancy, a son and son-in-law are killed. A daughter-in-law and three children are captured, and are ransomed two years later.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 30.148781000000
Longitude: -96.956773000000
Longitude: -96.956773000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 107.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:228-229.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 15-16.
Event Type: