Coryell County, Texas Late in the evening of September 24, 1865, B.F. Gholson hobbled two horses near the Asa-Langford Ranch, about six hundred yards south of the present town of Evant. They had not been there long when twelve Indians came along and...
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Coryell County, Texas Killing of Williamson and Escape of Hendrickson These two gentlemen, who lived on the Cowhouse, near the present village of King, had been to the Williams ranch, perhaps in Mills County, to get three of their horses which the...
Coryell County, Texas During the following day, after the killing of James Knight, and the second day after the massacre of Lucinda Wood and Liddie Lemley, the Indians charged Jesse J. Griffith and John S. White, two primitive Baptist preachers, who...
Coryell County, Texas During the month of May of the above year, B.F. Gholson and William Burton left the old Blue Water Hole Ranch owned by Albert Gholson, to ride the range for cattle. When the two rode upon a divide overlooking the Colorado...
Coryell County, Texas Accounts slightly differ concerning this episode, but it occurred sometime during 1864, or early in 1865, and will be reported at this time. Samuel Graham was a younger son of Gideon Graham, who lived on Brown's Creek, about 12...
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From the book, Texas, The Dark Corner of the Confederacy, by B.P. Gallaway:
Coryell County, Texas During the summer of 1863, Jno. Sellers and his nephew, Almond Boyd, a son of James Boyd, who lived about four miles south of the present town of Pancake, in Coryell County, were returning home from the Leon Valley, where they...
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