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Indian Atrocities and Pioneer Deaths in Parker County
Story recounts Civil War era Indian attacks in Parker County Texas. It details the killings of Rev. John Hamilton's sons William and Stewart, Mrs. F. C. Brown, Sarah and another girl, and other settlers including William Berry, Mrs. Smith family, Coldiron children, Henry Maxwell, Hugh O Blackwell, and Bowlen Savage. It notes rescues, captures, and raids near Brazos river, Meek's Prairie, and Weatherford, with accounts of battles and ambushes by Native forces and reactions of local settlers.
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Patrick Creek
Parker County
John Hamilton
Texas
Stewart
F. C. Brown
Hamiltons
Sarah
William Berry
East Texas
Sanches Creek
Horseshoe Bend
Brazos River
Berry
Coldiron
van Buren
Henry Maxwell
Arkansas
Collin County
Maxwell
Joyce
Prince
Hugh O. Blackwell
Jacksborough
Rock Creek
Blackwell's
Sullivan’s
Samuel Hartfield
Sullivan
Blackwell
Fort Cobb
Meek’s Prairie
West Meek's Prairie
A. J. Gorman
Leeper
Weatherford
Savage Brothers
Bowlen
James
Bowlen Savage
James Savage
Fort Sill
Oliver Loving
Charles Goodnight
Indian Territory
Pecos River
Colorado
New Mexico
Loving
Wilson
Horsehead Crossing
Dife
Pecos
Tort Sumpter
Fort Sumpter