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FROM OUR EER MEMORIESBy Walter Malec —jpe And Indiansvalue was to come later. For those $50 Rev. Rogers bought flour and other necessities.“About this time some gentlemen from the states visited our country and seeing our destitute conditions, one of them on his return to New Orleans bought a cargo of flour, had it shipped to Major Sutherland and landed at Cox’s Point. My share was nearly a barrell of flour. This enabled us to get along tolerably well until we had a crop.”“We made every effort to find out who our kind benefactor was but never could. I wanted to express the grateful feeling of my heart for such and unlooked for kindness. Never had I enjoyed the pleasure that accompanies a grateful heart as I did then.”From 1836 to 1849 the settlers did very well. They whipped the Indians, who gave them no more troublt, except their raid which destroyed Linnville. Great many settlers were killed then. Two ladies and some Negroes were carried away. One was Mrs. Watts, the wife of Major Watts, the collector of Linnville, who was killed in the raid. Mrs. Watts was rescued at the Battle of Plum Creek, near today’s Lockhart. The other lady was a Mrs. Crosby of Victoria. The Indians killed her during the Plum Creek battle. They also shot the other lady, Mrs. Watts, but not fatally.She was carried after the battle on a litter to the home of Mrs. Wood, about seven miles away. There Mrs. Watts remained till she recovered.Said Rev. Rogers himself* “I lost my hat in the early part of the battle and I was very thirsty and did not get any water until we got to the river. I don’t think that I ever came so near dying for water as I did then.”All that was the price the first settlers had to pay for what we enjoy today.
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Yoakum Herald Times
Yoakum, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 17, 1960
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