Old Warren Homestead Raided | BORDER LAND: Interethnic Violence in Texas, 1820-1879

GeoCoords:

Latitude: 33.665991000000
Longitude: -96.246103000000

County:

Fannin

Date:

Summer 1840

Time Period:

Texas Republic 1836-45

Description:

A party of Indians raid the homestead of the Edward Hunter family, eight miles east of Old Warren (near present-day Ravenna). Mrs. Hunter, her youngest daughter, and a black slave woman are killed. The Hunter’s oldest daughter is taken captive and traded to the Choctaws, from whom she is recovered one year later.

Event Type:

Raiding Activity

Race or Ethnicity:

Native American

White (includes Anglo-American, European)

Tribe:

Choctaws/Chickasaws

Age:

adult (18+)

Citation:

John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 100-101.

Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1840-1841 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 3:65-66.

John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas. (Austin: Steck Co.,

1935), 397-401.

Image
Image details

Choctaw Indians

Caption: Choctaw Indians
Original Title: Yguanés. Iguanees ou Yuganis: Indigénes des E.U. du N.A.: emigrés sur les rives de l'Atoyac, du Neches et de l'Angelina.
Image Type: Watercolor and ink on paper
Creator: Yguanés. Iguanees ou Yuganis: Indigénes des E.U. du N.A.: emigrés sur les rives de l'Atoyac, du Neches et de l'Angelina.
Collection: Thomas W. Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Image Citation:

Berlandier, Jean Louis, The Indians of Texas in 1830. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1969, Plate 8