“Cherokee” John Williams, a noted horse thief, is killed in a Cherokee village. Exact location unknown, but approximately 30 miles north of Nacogdoches.
Date: August 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.720669000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Longitude: -94.638573000000
Citation:
House Executive Documents, 25th Congress, 2nd sess., No. 351, 776.
Malcolm D. McLean, comp. Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 11:252.
Event Type:
Date: October 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Cherokees are killed in Cherokee territory, roughly thirty miles north of Nacogdoches, possibly by Anglo-American surveyors.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.009037000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Longitude: -94.664951000000
Citation:
Mosley Baker and F. W. Johnson, “Report of Messrs. Baker and Johnson to the Chairman of the General Council of Texas,” Telegraph and Texas Register, November 7, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: October 29, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A party of Texas soldiers under Major George Sutherland is attacked by Karankawas twelve miles from the Goliad presidio on the San Antonio Road. One Texan, David M. Collinsworth, is killed.
Tribe: Karankawas
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.647419000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Longitude: -97.383557000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (Austin: Presidial Press, 1973), 2:266-67, 275-77.
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 114.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:48.
Telegraph and Texas Register, November 14, 1835
Event Type:
Date: July 20, 1837
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) J.H. Nash stabs a Mexican teenager in San Antonio and escapes from authorities.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.428412000000
Longitude: -98.457799000000
Longitude: -98.457799000000
Citation:
Eugene C. Barker, ed., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (Austin: The University of Austin Press, 1939), 2:137.
Event Type:
Date: May 8, 1838
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Eugenio Navarro, a prosperous merchant and the youngest brother of José Antonio Navarro, is shot and killed by a man named Tinsley in his general store in San Antonio. Navarro stabs and kills his assailant before he dies.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.335741000000
Longitude: -98.386277000000
Longitude: -98.386277000000
Citation:
Camilla Campbell, "Navarro, José Eugenio," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fna18), accessed January 17, 2016. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
David Donald, Jose Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth Century Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 2010), 147-48.
Event Type:
Date: January 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Upon the death of the wife of a Comanche chief, the Indians kill Rhoda Putnam at one of their rancherias, possibly near present-day Big Spring, as a sacrifice, burying them together.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 32.224132000000
Longitude: -101.515796000000
Longitude: -101.515796000000
Citation:
Benjamin Dolbeare, A Narative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster… (New Haven: Yale University Press. 1986), 21.
Event Type:
Date: June 1844
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Tonkawas, Wacos
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American A Tonkawa woman is killed by Wichitas (Wacos) on the Comal River, near the German settlement of New Braunfels.
Tribe: Tonkawas, Wacos
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 29.701398000000
Longitude: -98.119780000000
Longitude: -98.119780000000
Citation:
Dorman H. Winfrey, ed. Texas Indian Papers 1844-1845 (Austin: Texas State Library), 2:167.
Event Type:
Date: March, 1845
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three Wichitas (Wacos) are killed near Bastrop by local residents.
Tribe: Wacos
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.123971000000
Longitude: -97.349115000000
Longitude: -97.349115000000
Citation:
Niles’ National Register, April 12, 1845
Event Type:
Date: February 23, 1856
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A sixteen-year-old German boy named Pieper encounters six Indians about fourteen miles northwest of Hillsboro. He shoots one of them with a shotgun and flees unharmed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.140253000000
Longitude: -97.310229000000
Longitude: -97.310229000000
Citation:
The Texas State Times, Vol. 3, No. 13, March 8, 1856.
Event Type:
Date: May 1859
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man kills and burns his master in Tarrant County.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.870958000000
Longitude: -97.215244000000
Longitude: -97.215244000000
Citation:
Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009), 105.
Event Type:
Date: 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A enslaved man kills his master, a Mr. Anderson, in present-day Centerville. He is placed in jail.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.259515000000
Longitude: -95.981543000000
Longitude: -95.981543000000
Citation:
The San Antonio Ledger and Texan, Vol. 9, No. 45, May 12, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: May 11, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three enslaved persons named Jess, Ruben (Rube?), and Emma kill a Mr. Kinkaid (Kineade, Kinkade?), his wife, and his son in Orangeville in present-day Fannin County.
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 33.593849000000
Longitude: -96.149400000000
Longitude: -96.149400000000
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 23.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 43, June 2, 1860.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 46, June 23, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 37, June 2, 1860.
The Navarro Express, Vol. 1, No. 28, June 2, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 12, June 5, 1860.
Wendell G. Addington, "Slave Insurrections in Texas." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1950), 420.
Event Type:
Date: June-July 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: female
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved woman poisons her female owner with arsenic approximately twelve miles north of Centerville. The woman survives the poisoning.
Gender: female
Location:
Latitude: 31.423999000000
Longitude: -95.975528000000
Longitude: -95.975528000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 16, July 3, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-June 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved woman kills a child named Pike Pace (either on June 8 or June 9) in Bonham and is hanged after being found guilty.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 33.578847000000
Longitude: -96.176154000000
Longitude: -96.176154000000
Citation:
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 48, July 7, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 40, June 23, 1860.
The Daily Ledger and Texan, Vol. 1, No. 160, July 11, 1860.
The Dallas Herald, Vol. 8, No. 51, June 20, 1860.
The San Antonio Ledger and Texan, Vol. 10, No. 2, July 14, 1860.
The Standard, Vol. 17, No. 24, June 30, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: July-August 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) A master named Thomas Erwin is tied down and shot by two of his enslaved men.
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.173447000000
Longitude: -96.412864000000
Longitude: -96.412864000000
Citation:
The Civilian and Gazette, Vol. 23, No. 18, July 31, 1860.
The Navarro Express, Vol. 1, No. 38, August 11, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 21, August 7, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: August 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Gender: unspecified
Two enslaved men kill their owner and are jailed to be hanged on the 14th of August.
Location:
Latitude: 30.168165000000
Longitude: -96.395355000000
Longitude: -96.395355000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 25, August 21, 1860.
State Gazette, Vol. 12, No. 1, August 11, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Early August 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: male, unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An overseer is stabbed by an enslaved man, who then escapes with another enslaved person.
Gender: male, unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.707413000000
Longitude: -96.538648000000
Longitude: -96.538648000000
Citation:
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 24, August 14, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: August 3, 1860
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Black (includes African American and African), White (includes Anglo-American, European) An enslaved man is hanged southwest of present-day Athens after being accused of attempting to poison the water in the town.
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 32.088072000000
Longitude: -95.968046000000
Longitude: -95.968046000000
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 125.
The Civilian and Gazette, Vol. 23, No. 20, August 14, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 49, August 25, 1860.
The Navarro Express, Vol. 1, No. 38, August 11, 1860. https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth179257/m1/1/
The San Antonio Ledger and Texan, Vol. 10, No. 8, August 25, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 24, August 14, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 25, August 21, 1860.
Event Type:
Date: Mid October 1866
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Alexander Roberts, son, William and neighbor, Cicero R. Perry, fight unidentified Indians three miles south of Round Mountain in Blanco County. They seriously wound one Indian.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.389148000000
Longitude: -98.342873000000
Longitude: -98.342873000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 285.
Event Type:
Date: August 30, 1867
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Statehood 1846-
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American U.S. troops fight Comanches in the vicinity of Fort Belknap. The Indians kill two soldiers in the fighting.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 33.151299000000
Longitude: -98.740484000000
Longitude: -98.740484000000
Citation:
Gregory Michno, The Settlers’ War: The Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s (Caldwell: Caxton Press, 2011), 327.
Event Type: