GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.578119000000
Longitude: -98.690149000000
Longitude: -98.690149000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
April 16, 1854
Time Period:
Description:
Indians kill James Forester (Foster) and his four children at their home at Helotes, roughly eighteen miles northwest of San Antonio. Forester’s wife, Mary, survives.
Race or Ethnicity:
Tribe:
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gary Clayton Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), 261.
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 638.
Texas Ranger, Vol. 5, No. 39, April 27, 1854.
Mary A. Caldwell Foster Image Viewed: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5821693/mary-a.-foster?_gl=1*d30lub*_ga*MjE0MDQ2NTIyNi4xNjQ0OTYxMTQ3*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2NjY0MTgzNi43MS4xLjE2NjY2NDU5ODMuMTUuMC4w
Image Accessed: October 24, 2022
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.578119000000
Longitude: -98.690149000000
Longitude: -98.690149000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
April 16, 1854
Event Description:
Indians kill James Forester (Foster) and his four children at their home at Helotes, roughly eighteen miles northwest of San Antonio. Forester’s wife, Mary, survives.
Tribe:
- Unknown Tribe
Gender:
male
female
Age:
child (0-12)
adult (18+)
Citation:
Gary Clayton Anderson, The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005), 261.
Andrew Jackson Sowell, Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones & Co., 1900), 638.
Texas Ranger, Vol. 5, No. 39, April 27, 1854.
Mary A. Caldwell Foster Image Viewed: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5821693/mary-a.-foster?_gl=1*d30lub*_ga*MjE0MDQ2NTIyNi4xNjQ0OTYxMTQ3*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*MTY2NjY0MTgzNi43MS4xLjE2NjY2NDU5ODMuMTUuMC4w
Image Accessed: October 24, 2022