Coco Indians (Karankawas) kill two members of Austin’s colony, Loy (or Law) and John C. Alley, who had tried to stop them from stealing a corn-filled pirogue on the Colorado River, near the mouth of Skull Creek and ten miles south of present-day Columbus.
Date: February 23, 1823
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Coco
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Coco
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.532235000000
Longitude: -96.406754000000
Longitude: -96.406754000000
Citation:
William B. Dewees, Letters from an Early Settler of Texas (Louisville: Morton Griswold, 1852), 38-40. F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 128. J. W. Wilbarger, , Indian Depredations in Texas, (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 200-01.
Event Type:
Date: October 1823
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta, Choctaws/Chickasaws, Coco
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Stephen F. Austin provides emigrant tribes—the Coushattas, Alabamas, and Choctaws--with powder and lead to attack the Karankawas, who had been committing depredations in the colony. Locating a party of Cocos (Karankawas), they kill the chief, his son, and three other tribesmen.
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta, Choctaws/Chickasaws, Coco
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.805670000000
Longitude: -94.684611000000
Longitude: -94.684611000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 130.
Event Type:
Date: 1824
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Coco
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Austin launches attacks on Karankawas early in the year, assaulted a Coco (Karankawa) village upstream from the mouth of the Brazos River, killing seven.
Tribe: Coco
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.916270000000
Longitude: -95.389051000000
Longitude: -95.389051000000
Citation:
F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 130.
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 4:245–48.
Eugene C. Barker, ed. The Austin Papers (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924–27) vol. 1, part 1: 768, 803.
Kelly F. Himmel, The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999) 49-50.
William H. Oberste, History of Refugio Mission (Refugio, TX: [1942]), 309.
Event Type:
Date: Fall 1852
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Coco
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Citizens of Refugio County organize a posse of twenty to thirty volunteers and attack a Karankawa camp on the shores of Hynes Bay. The townspeople kill the majority of the Karankawas at the encampment, suffering no casualties of their own. Reports vary on the exact number of Indians killed.
Tribe: Coco
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 28.417018000000
Longitude: -96.859444000000
Longitude: -96.859444000000
Citation:
Kelly F. Himmel, The Conquest of the Karankawas and the Tonkawas, 1821-1859 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999), 100-101.
Handbook of Texas Online, Stephen L. Hardin, “Hynes Bay, Battle Of,” accessed February 28, 2018, <https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qfh01>.
Gregory F. Michno, Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890 (Missoula: Mountain Press Publishing Co., 2003), 17.