Kerr County, Texas August 8, 1865, there lived at the head springs of the Pedernales, in the eastern edge of the present town of Harper, Matthew Taylor and wife, Eli McDonald and wife, Mahaley and Beckie Jane McDonald, children of Mr. and Mrs. Eli...
Kerr County, Texas During 1873 Jack Harding, an African boy, about twelve years of age, was returning from mill with corn meal, and captured on Cherry Creek, in Kerr County, about five miles southeast of Center Point. The savages then went about...
Kerr County, Texas In 1858, Mr. Nichols lived about five miles west of Kerrville, on the beautiful Guadalupe River. While he was out turkey hunting with Jim Hampton and a friend named Hurt, Mr. Nichols told his companions he was going into the river...
Kerr County, Texas During 1862, Sammy Lane, who lived about two miles west of Comfort, in the edge of Kerr County, started to the home of John Corner, who lived near the present town of Center Point. It was also Mr. Lane's mission to see about some...
Markers (click on a topic to jump to that section.) Site of Camp Verde | Camp Verde General Store and Post Office | Camp Verde, C.S.A. | Center Point Cemetery | The Dowdy Tragedy of 1878 | Henderson Cemetery | Indian Sites on Cypress Creek | Old...
Kerr County, Texas During the above year, after making a raid in the vicinity of Kerrville, the Indians retreated up the river and secreted themselves in the Guadalupe Mountains. Spencer Goss, William Kelso, Jack Herridge, Tom Wherry, Tom McAdams...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Camp Verde | Center Point | Kerrville Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Indians Attack Taylor Home Near the Head Springs of the Pedernales | Calvin Putman and Others Fight Near the Head of the Pedernales | Rolland...
Kerr County, Texas Mrs. Alexander and her daughters, Mrs. W.C. (Nancy) Wachter, were alone at their home on the south prong of the Guadalupe, about thirteen miles southwest of Ingram. John J. Alexander had gone to Spring Creek, in Gillespie County...
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