180/Alternate Route to Weatherford More Stories and Information on Fort Tours Road Trips The homes of the Savage brothers were viciously attacked by Comanches in 1866. Besides two murders, three children were carried off including Sam Savage...
Parker County, Texas Bill Nix in the Watermelon Patch It is difficult to determine whether Warren Hudson, whom the Indians treed in the pecan tree, or Bill Nix, had the most exciting Indian experience. About 1864 there was a watermelon patch near...
Parker County, Texas During the fall of 1865, a Mr. Moore and his son-in-law named Spruell, lived on Rock Creek, near where the old Weatherford-Jacksboro road crossed this stream, about 12 miles northwest of Weatherford. Mrs. Wm. Lowe had been away...
Parker County, Texas Indians Charge Fuller Millsap's Residence During 1871, the savages slipped up and shot Thomas Landrum, who was hitching up horses, near the lot at the Fuller Millsap place, about one mile north of the present town of Millsap in...
Parker County, Texas Henry Maxwell and family, settled in the southwestern portion of Parker County, on the Stephenville and Weatherford roads, about fifteen miles from Weatherford. Mr. Maxwell's home was on the south side of the river, and near the...
Parker County, Texas As related in the preceding section, Jim McKinney married a daughter of Isaac Briscoe and a sister of Mrs. Joe Fowler. They lived in the southeastern part of Jack County, and were returning home from Springtown, in Parker county...
Parker County, Texas Indians Celebrate the Fourth of July in Tarrant and Parker Counties The following story by Kate Nowak was featured in the July 2002, Painted Post Crossroads. I can still remember that Fourth of July the Indians came. The year...
Parker County, Texas About 1872, while Joe Littleton and his wife, who lived about fifteen miles northwest of Weatherford, were gathering pecans on the creek a short distance from the house, several Indians surrounded their home. Mary, Tex, and...
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