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Burnet
County Indian depredations mentioned in the book,
"The West Texas Frontier" by Joseph Carroll McConnell, 1939,
are listed below.
For a copy of the text relating to the paragraph number and name
of a Burnet County event,
please contact the Burnet County Genealogical
Society
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306
- Robert Adams
killed, 1859. Also mentioned are M.
J. Bolt, Valentine
Fry, E.
C.
Cowan, Luther H. Cowan, Gid Cowan.
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| 321
- Benjamin Van Hook
and Mosiac Scaggs,
1860. |
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| 374 - A. D. Hamlin
Bluffs Indians with a Stick, 1861.
Also mentioned, Ike
Maxwell, E. Sampson. |
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| 404 - Indian Fight About Nine Miles Southwest of
Bertram, 1862. Names mentioned: Capt
John
Barton, Newton Murphy, Jesse Calvert, Wm. Allen. |
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| 409 - Indians Murder Mr.
Cook, 1863.
Others named: James
Boyce, Duke Strickland. |
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| 410 - Johnathan P.
Ragle, Lewis Jackson, and Lorenzo
Holland ambushed on way to Morgan's Mill, 1863.
Also mentioned: Marcus Scaggs and his brother,
Benton Skaggs. |
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| 425 - Parson Hoover
Dismisses Church to Fight the Indians, 1863. Others
named: G. B. Cowen,
Jr., C. A. Davis, John
Burns. |
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| 441 - John McGill
killed, 1863. Other names: Wm.
McGill,
Sam McGill, March Thomas, Thomas Shepherd. |
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| 457 - Waford (Enic)
Johnson, Wife and Children killed - no date. |
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| 493 - Bob Sampson and
Joe Allen Encounter Indians, 1864, at Morman's
Mill. Mr.
Coon mentioned. |
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| 514 - Lum Tedford and
Sam Binion, 1865, Hoover's Valley. Also
mentioned: James and Tom Cooper, Bill McGill, A. D.
Hamlin. |
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| 515 - Killing of Benson
and Capture of Son, 1865, Backbone Valley. |
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| 545 - Murder of Mr.
Jackson, about 1866, Cypress Creek. Also
mentioned: Mark Steward. |
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| 641 - Marion Smith
killed, 1869. Other names mentioned: Columbus
Smith, A. H. Edwards, Jim and Wm. Strains, Tom Cates. |
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| 710 - Exciting Chase of Sam
Brooks, M. J. Bolt and others, 1871, NW of
Burnet. Other names: John
Calvert,
Oliver Lee, Sam Wilson, Marion Armstrong, Marion Gree,
Tom Fry, W. B. Johnston. |
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| 784 - Indian Fight in
Northwestern Burnet County, 1873. Mentioned
are: W. W. Brooks, James
Taylor, B. Eubanks, J. Jordan. |
See
also: Raids
and Murders in Burnet County
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