Comanches attack Mexican troops at the Arroyo Hondo (Hondo Creek), eleven miles east of present-day Vanderpool, killing Ramón Aguirre.
Date: April 30, 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.756345000000
Longitude: -99.491243000000
Longitude: -99.491243000000
Citation:
Antonio Elosua to Captains of Companies of Rio Grande and Bexar and Vicente Arreola, May 14, 1833, Bexar Archives, Dolph Briscoe Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Event Type:
Date: 1833
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Eight Mexicans are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, near San Patricio.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.971171000000
Longitude: -97.762235000000
Longitude: -97.762235000000
Citation:
Hobart Huson, Refugio: a comprehensive history of Refugio County from aboriginal times ... (Woodsboro, TX: Rooke Foundation, 1953-55), 137.
Event Type:
Date: February 2, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A group of Comanches with stolen horses attacked a merchant caravan. One resident, Theodosio Trevino, is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.782021000000
Longitude: -99.497557000000
Longitude: -99.497557000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 6.
Event Type:
Date: 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Land agent Thomas McQueen is robbed and severely wounded by a party of Indians, probably Comanche, on the Medina River, approximately 24 miles west of San Antonio. One Indian is also killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.364474000000
Longitude: -98.825988000000
Longitude: -98.825988000000
Citation:
Jose Padilla to Samuel May Williams, February 26, 1834, Samuel May Williams Papers, Rosenberg Library.
Event Type:
Date: April 7, 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Two Laredo residents are killed by Comanches.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.578071000000
Longitude: -99.404754000000
Longitude: -99.404754000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 6.
Event Type:
Date: May 1834
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White William Ponton is killed by Comanches on Ponton Creek, northwest of present-day Shiner.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.428502000000
Longitude: -97.176308000000
Longitude: -97.176308000000
Citation:
"Ponton Creek," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbpbd), accessed October 31, 2015. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 79.
Event Type:
Date: February 6, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American, White Three Mexicans and an Anglo named Smith are killed by Indians, presumably Comanches, a few miles south of San Antonio. One man is killed; Smith later dies of his wounds.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.148252000000
Longitude: -98.530913000000
Longitude: -98.530913000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 29.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955).
Event Type:
Date: April 15, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Mr. Gressier and 13 French and Mexican merchants are killed by raiding party of 70 Comanche on the San Antonio Road, 15 miles west of Gonzales.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.515749000000
Longitude: -97.675150000000
Longitude: -97.675150000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 16.
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 1:41.
Unfortunate Occurrence,” The Texas Republican, May 2, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: Mid-April 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Party of settlers from Gonzales led by James H. C. McClure skirmish with a Comanche raiding party, numbering about 50, on the Rio Blanco, near present-day San Marcos. Five or six Comanches are killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.853765000000
Longitude: -97.917442000000
Longitude: -97.917442000000
Citation:
Andrew J. Sowell, Early settlers and Indian fighters of southwest Texas, Austin: B.C. Jones, 1900), 438-440.
“Unfortunate Occurrence,” The Texas Republican, May 2, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: June 6, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Three men are killed by Indians, probably Comanches, near the La Bahia Crossing on the Colorado River.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.323952000000
Longitude: -96.153674000000
Longitude: -96.153674000000
Citation:
Texas Republican, June 6, 1835.
Event Type:
Date: Summer 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Austin colonist James Lyons is killed by a party of Comanches on his farm, a few miles south of present-day Schulenburg. His son, Warren Lyons, is captured, and lives with the Comanches for ten years before returning to his family.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.613376000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Longitude: -96.919681000000
Citation:
Benjamin Dolbeare, A Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Dolly Webster among the Camanche Indians in Texas: with an account of the Massacre of John Webster and his Party, as related by Mrs. Webster (New Haven: Yale University Library, 1986), 12.
John Wesley Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 218-19.
Event Type:
Date: October 5, 1835
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Edward Burleson and twenty colonists engage in a running fight with a dozen Comanches near Gonzales. Several Indians are killed. A German boy in his early teens who had been captured previously is recovered.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.510346000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Longitude: -97.474832000000
Citation:
John J. Linn, Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas (Austin: State House Press, 1986), 108.
Event Type:
Date: December 7, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American A large Comanche raiding party attacks Laredo, taking about 200 animals. One citizen is killed.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 27.519627000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Longitude: -99.468612000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: December 21, 1835
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Mexican Era 1821-1835
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic, Native American Three residents, Ramon de la Garza, Gregorio Canales and Luciano Benavides, are killed in an attack on the town by Comanches Indians.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 27.508184000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Longitude: -99.494407000000
Citation:
Wood, Robert D. Archivos de Laredo: Index to the Municipal Correspondence 1825-1845, 8.
Event Type:
Date: 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American Four men and one boy are killed by Comanches near the Rio Grande, 40 miles southeast of Las Moras Creek.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 29.467206000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Longitude: -100.978278000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 30.
Carl Coke Rister, Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's (Glendale Ca: A.H. Clark, 1955), 122-23.
Event Type:
Date: January 1, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 40 Caddo and Comanches attacks two wagons of colonists near the mouth of Brushy Creek, on the San Gabriel River. Thomas Riley is killed; his brother James Riley is severely wounded. Four Indians are reported killed.
Tribe: Caddos, Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.722847000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Longitude: -97.046335000000
Citation:
Malcolm D. McLean, Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1974), 13:38-40.
Stephen L. Moore, Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1835-1837 (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2002), 1:71-2.
“More Indian Difficulties,” Telegraph and Texas Register, January 23, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: January 20, 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White Comanches attack Hibbins party near the headwaters of Navidad River (northwest of present day Schulenberg). John Hibbins, his brother-in-law George Creath, and an infant are killed. Mrs. Hibbins and a son are captured.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male, female
Location:
Latitude: 29.711386000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Longitude: -96.845489000000
Citation:
John Henry Brown, Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas (Austin: L. E. Daniel, 1896), 88-90.
James T. De Shields, Border Wars of Texas: being an Authentic and Popular Account, in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Waged Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas, ed. Matt Bradley (Tioga: The Herald Company, 1912), 198.
Event Type:
Date: Late January 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John J. Tumlinson Jr. and rangers pursue Comanches in search of the Hibbins son, seized on January 20. On Walnut Creek, in present-day Austin, the rangers attack the Comanches and rescue the child, killing one Indian.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.277439000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Longitude: -97.653920000000
Citation:
Noah Smithwick, The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days (Austin: Steck Co., 1935), 119-121.
Telegraph and Texas Register, February 27, 1836.
Event Type:
Date: March 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White A party of 60 Indians (probably Comanches) attack six Anglos on the San Gabriel River, 25 miles north of present day Austin. No loss of life on either side.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: unspecified
Location:
Latitude: 30.429965000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Longitude: -97.657136000000
Citation:
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, The Papers of Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, Charles Adam Gulick, et al., ed. (A.C. Baldwin, Printers, 1924), 4/1:32.
Event Type:
Date: Spring 1836
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Time Period: Texas Revolution 1835-36
Description:
Race or Ethnicity: Native American, White John Rover is killed by a party of ten Indians (probably Comanches) near Gilleland Creek, in present-day Pflugerville.
Tribe: Comanches
Gender: male
Location:
Latitude: 30.457048000000
Longitude: -97.639976000000
Longitude: -97.639976000000
Citation:
Frank Brown, Annals of Travis County and of the City of Austin: From the Earliest Times to the Close of 1875, 2:59.
Event Type: