CategoryBandera County

Bandera County, Texas Sunday, July 4, 1872, Mr. J.W. Moore and his wife, accompanied by their four children, Amanda, ten years of age, John Travis, six years of age, George, about four, and Mary Anne, a baby, left their home on the Medina River...

Bandera County, Texas During 1861, J.P. McMurray who was serving his first term as tax assessor of Bandera County, was traveling alone while discharging his official duties. George Hay and perhaps others warned him of the danger of Indians. But Mr...

Bandera County, Texas During 1860, while General Robert E. Lee was in command of the Department of Texas, his able officer in command of a division of the Second Cavalry, started from San Antonio to Brownsville, for the purpose of putting a stop to...

Bandera County, Texas The Recapture of the Krawitz Children During 1862, about fifteen rangers camped about ten miles from the head of the Medina River in the Bandera County territory. It was an autumn night and Taylor Thompson doing guard duty. He...

Bandera County, Texas Indians Murder Mr. Hardin's Son Mr. Hardin's son, about sixteen years of age, left their home and was hunting beeves on the divide between Indian Creek and the Middle Verde, perhaps, in the northern part of Medina County or in...

Bandera County, Texas During 1866 David Cryer and Foster, were returning from Bandera to their homes in the Hondo Canyon, and were driving a two horse wagon loaded with supplies. When near the Sugar-Loaf Mountain, about ten miles south of Bandera...

Bandera County, Texas Dr. E.M. Dawns lived in the Grigsby house, on the Middle Verde, about ten miles south of Bandera. E.L. Dawns, his son, had just returned from the Confederate army, and was breaking a span of mules. Dr. Dawns was practically an...