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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. |
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