Hamilton County, Texas During 1859, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Richardson and their five children lived in Lankford Cove, about one and one-half miles west of the present town of Evant. Mr. Richardson had gone to the mill at Belton. Mrs. Richardson and her...
Uvalde County, Texas Dr. John Richardson, who lived near the present town of Concan, and Frank Watkins who lived near the present village of Rio Frio, started to Uvalde for the purpose of registering in the War between the States. After reaching a...
Albert D. Richardson's first-hand account of his 1859 Butterfield Stage Ride into Texas from the book, Beyond the Mississippi. Waterman L. Ormsby's account of leaving Fort Belknap on the 1858 initial run of the Butterfield Overland Mail. Butterfield...
Wise County, Texas Alonzo Dill It was about 1866 that the savages charged Alonzo Dill, in the vicinity of the present town of Rhome, in the southeastern part of Wise County. Alonzo Dill was a considerable distance from his home, and beyond the West...
Shackelford County, Texas Several years before the secession of the states, Capt. Gibbons constructed a stone ranch residence, on the Old California Trail, in Throckmorton County, a few miles east of the Haskell County line. This building remained...
Palo Pinto County, Texas When the Indians passed Murphy's Station, the second day after they killed John Brown and Mrs. Sherman, and the succeeding day after they stole the horse of Jowell McKee, and gave Tom Mullins and Conatser an exciting chase...
Back to Fort Belknap The following is from the book, Lambshead Before Interwoven, by Frances Mayhugh Holden. After Texas entered the Union on February 16, 1846, Neighbors, retained as agent, immediately participated in making the first United States...
Early Republic of Texas Rangers | Ranger Descriptions | Rangers Col. Edward Burleson James Milford Day James Wilson Nichols James Milford Day, pictured above, one of Guadalupe County's earliest settlers, was seriously wounded in a gun battle with...
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