Two Austin residents, a butcher and an English laborer, are killed in the recently-establish city by Comanches.
Date: March 13, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.267200000000
Longitude: -97.743100000000
Longitude: -97.743100000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:17.
Event Type:
Date: March 19, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Violence erupts on the streets of San Antonio when peace talks break down between the Lamar administration and the Penateka Comanches. One of the negotiators for the Lamar administration was Hugh McLeod. Thirty-five Comanches, including Penateka head chief Muguara, are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.424358000000
Longitude: -98.493223000000
Longitude: -98.493223000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:21-31.
Handbook of Texas Online, Jodye Lynn Dickson Schilz, "Council House Fight," accessed July 13, 2016, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/btc01.
Event Type:
Date: April 13, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Two men, Wright and Buffington, are killed by Indians, possibly Coushattas, thirty miles southwest of Nacogdoches, between the Neches and Angelina rivers.
Tribe: Alabama/Coushatta
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.184715000000
Longitude: -94.830092000000
Longitude: -94.830092000000
Citation:
Charles A. Gulick, ed. The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (Austin: A.C. Baldwin, 1921), 3:373.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Comanches kill Leander C. Cunningham on the San Marcos River.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.682932000000
Longitude: -97.704149000000
Longitude: -97.704149000000
Citation:
John H. Jenkins, Edward Burleson: Texas Frontier Leader (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990), 241.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 50-51.
Event Type:
Date: July 4, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) John R. Cunningham’s Frontier Regiment skirmishes with Comanches eight miles west of Frio River and eight miles above the Old San Antonio Road. An unknown number of Indians are killed and wounded, and their supplies seized.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 29.362061000000
Longitude: -99.718221000000
Longitude: -99.718221000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, July 29, 1840.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:68-71.
Event Type:
Date: August 5, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Joel Ponton and Tucker Foley of Lavaca are attacked by Comanches at Ponton Creek, on the road from Columbus to Gonzales. Foley is killed; Ponton escapes.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.441650000000
Longitude: -97.103225000000
Longitude: -97.103225000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Event Type:
Date: August 9, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Texas scouts are chased by the large Comanche war party that had sacked the port of Linnville one day earlier. One Texan is killed, another seriously wounded.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 28.905556000000
Longitude: -96.767194000000
Longitude: -96.767194000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:136.
Event Type:
Date: August 26, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A spy company under the command of George B. Erath encounters two Kichai (Wichita) Indians skinning a buffalo on the Bosque River, a few miles northwest of present-day Waco. One Indian is killed; the other is severely wounded.
Tribe: Kichais
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 31.657827000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Longitude: -97.470845000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:133-34
Event Type:
Date: September 1, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Michael Nash, a carpenter, is killed by Indians, probably Comanches, three miles outside of Bastrop.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.095425000000
Longitude: -97.328520000000
Longitude: -97.328520000000
Citation:
John Holland Jenkins, Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Austin: UT Press), 104.
Event Type:
Date: September 17, 1840
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) En route to the Red River, a company of Col. William G. Cooke’s First Regiment is attacked by Indians near Chambers Creek, ten miles west of present-day Corsicana. Four Texas troops are killed.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.171544000000
Longitude: -96.722188000000
Longitude: -96.722188000000
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 96-97
Event Type:
Date: January 19, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) The father-in-law of Judge James Smith is killed by Indians (probably Comanches) while cutting down a bee tree four miles south of Austin
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.185597000000
Longitude: -97.741805000000
Longitude: -97.741805000000
Citation:
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co.,
1935), 141.
Event Type:
Date: January 21, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) James Smith, chief justice of Travis County, is killed by Comanches while searching for hogs in the woods outside of Austin. His son, Fayette, is captured, but ransomed in New Mexico a few months later.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.274852000000
Longitude: -97.762639000000
Longitude: -97.762639000000
Citation:
Col. Wilson T. Davidson, “A Comanche Prisoner in 1841,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 45, pp. 335-42.
Event Type:
Date: February 25, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Anderson County settler William Frost is killed near the Trinity River, sixteen miles southwest of present-day Palestine.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.944094000000
Longitude: -97.036800000000
Longitude: -97.036800000000
Citation:
http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/anderson/cemeteries/actcm002.txt (accessed July 16, 2018)
Event Type:
Date: April 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican/Tejano), Native American Two Mexicans are killed by Comanches near José Antonio Navarro’s ranch on the east bank of the Guadalupe River, near present-day New Braunfels.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.012373000000
Longitude: -98.525708000000
Longitude: -98.525708000000
Citation:
Joseph M. Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier 1836-1841 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1963), 411.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:213.
Event Type:
Date: May 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Three Texans from Capt. David Gage’s Nacogdoches County Minutemen encounter seven Cherokees near the Sabine River, in former Cherokee territory. One Texan is severely wounded.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.393804000000
Longitude: -94.652814000000
Longitude: -94.652814000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 23, 1842.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-May 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Illinois emigrant David Clubb is killed by Indians on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, in present-day Irving.
Tribe: Unknown Tribe
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.904474000000
Longitude: -96.929780000000
Longitude: -96.929780000000
Citation:
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas (Herald Company (1912), 352.
Event Type:
Date: May 20 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Texas rangers under the command of Capt. Mark Lewis encounter a band of Comanches between the San Saba and Llano rivers. Three Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.833333000000
Longitude: -100.116667000000
Longitude: -100.116667000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:226-231.
Event Type:
Date: May 21, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Texas rangers under the command of Capt. Mark Lewis encounter two parties of Comanches between the San Saba and the Llano rivers. Several Indians are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.919388000000
Longitude: -99.030627000000
Longitude: -99.030627000000
Citation:
“Memoir of Capt. C. R. Perry,” http://www.sonsofdewittcolony.org/perrycrmem.htm, accessed July 20, 2018.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:231.
Event Type:
Date: June 3, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) A company of Nacogdoches County militiamen kill three Indians within the former Cherokee nation.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 31.915827000000
Longitude: -94.197531000000
Longitude: -94.197531000000
Citation:
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 23, 1842.
Event Type:
Date: June 8, 1841
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Republic 1836-45
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White (includes Anglo-American, European) Nacogdoches militiamen pursue a party of Cherokees, killing seven, eight miles east of the upper Trinity River.
Tribe: Cherokees
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 32.192424000000
Longitude: -95.937562000000
Longitude: -95.937562000000
Citation:
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:254-255.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 23, 1842.
Event Type: