CategoryBurnet County

Burnet County, Texas During February 1860, Mosiac Scaggs and his family consisted of a wife and eight or nine children. They lived on the North Gabriel in Burnet County about twelve miles south of Lampasas. Benjamin Van Hook lived farther east in...

Burnet County, Texas During 1873, W.W. Brooks, James Taylor, B. Eubanks and about five others struck the trail of Indians, who were on a horse stealing raid, and overtook them about nineteen miles northwest of Burnet in Burnet County. The nineteen...

Burnet County, Texas During 1869, Marion and Columbus Smith, A.H. Edwards, Jim and Wm. Strains, Tom Cates, and possibly one or two more, while scouting for Indians, encountered the savages about six miles north of Burnet. There were about twenty...

Burnet County, Texas During 1864 Bob Sampson and Joe Allen were going from Morman's Mill to Burnet, about ten miles away. They had gone four miles and near Sand Springs when attacked by several Indians, who shot Bob Sampson in the head but the spike...

Burnet County, Texas J.P. Ragle and Lewis Jackson, who lived in the Strickland community about twelve miles northeast of Burnet, left home in a wagon drawn by oxen about one o'clock in the evening for Morgan's Mill, located about eight miles...

Burnet County, Texas It was, perhaps, during the year 1863 that John and Wm. McGill, sons of Wm. McGill, Sr., who lived about one mile south of Burnet, were out about five miles to the west with their brother, Sam McGill, and March Thomas, a cousin...

Burnet County, Texas One of the reliable surviving old-timers, with whom the author corresponded was of the opinion that Mr. Johnson's name was Enic, instead of Waford. All others were of the opinion that Mr. Johnson was generally known by the...