Parker County, Texas About 1867, Jack Coldwell, Sam Leonard, J.W. Miller, C.G. Cogbourne, Frank Smith, and perhaps a few others, while out scouting, struck an Indian trail somewhere in the northern part of Parker County. This trail was followed...
Parker County, Texas It was about 1864 that a Mr. Kellis and a boy named Andy Chapman, were charged by Indians about four miles east of the present town of Whitt, in Parker County. Andy Chapman was riding a pony that had been taught to pitch when...
Parker County, Texas During the early summer of 1866, the savages were discovered north of Springtown, in the Terrapin Neck Community, near the Parker-Wise County line. Alvin Clark, John Hill, and nine others had followed the Indian trail from the...
Parker County, Texas In the summer of 1861, Mrs. John Brown was killed by Indians. She had twin babies and had started to visit a neighbor near by, she was carrying one of the children, and a girl about grown (one of the accounts we have, say she...
Parker County, Texas Mary Tarkington Brown Crawford (circa 1832-1916), widow of John Brown, who, in November 1860, was killed, scalped, and mutilated by the Comanches near his home located sixteen miles northwest of Weatherford and about four miles...
Parker County, Texas Mr. and Mrs. Lem Barton lived about eighteen miles southwest of Weatherford. Mrs. Barton and her two little children were alone and eating dinner when they saw several horsemen running stock back of Sam Littlefield's field. At...
Parker County, Texas The following story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. The different authorities are not in accord concerning the date of this circumstance. But it probably occurred near the close of the...
Parker County, Texas During 1864 Andrew Berry had driven two yoke of oxen from his home about five miles away to the frontier log cabin of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lee Hamilton, who lived in the brakes along the Brazos, about fifteen miles southwest of...
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