Montague County, Texas It was about 1864 that the Indians attacked Mack Boren, who rode a good pony, and was out one evening south of Red River Station hunting horses. Boren ran his horse about one-fourth mile to Salt Creek. Here he jumped his pony...
Montague County, Texas James J. Box, who lived on the head of Elm, in Montague County, near the present city of St. Jo, and who was returning from a trip to Eastern Texas, stopped in Gainesville one week, because of the sickness of his wife. To them...
Cooke County, Texas Montague County, Texas Approximately two hundred and fifty Indians crossed Red River about two p.m. on the 22nd of December, 1863, at a place northward of the present town of Montague. The Indians then turned down the river, and...
Montague and Cooke Counties, Texas Randolph Vesey Historical Marker Marker Title: Randolph Vesey Address: State Street, at Courthouse City: Decatur Year Marker Erected: 1965 Marker Location: east side of Courthouse Square. Marker Text: Respected...
Montague County, Texas The succeeding morning after Spencer Mueller and his son were killed, as related in the preceding section, it is presumed the same savages came upon Jno. Stump and Bailey, who had started to Gainesville in an ox-wagon with...
Montague County, Texas December 23, 1866, Wm. Bailey and D.B. Green, two boys about eighteen years of age, who lived on Sandy Creek in Montague County, were out together in search of a pony. When they had gone about one-half mile from the latter's...
Montague County, Texas September 5, 1870, there lived two families on the west prong of Denton Creek, about six miles southwest of Montague. Jesse Maxey, his wife, and daughter, Rhoda, and son, Valentine, lived in one end of a double log-house; and...
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