Parker County, Texas About 1871, Joe Hemphill, in company with three or four other boys, was returning home one dark Sunday night, from Veale's Station, where they had attended church. The boys were charged by some horsemen in the dark, who...
Parker County, Texas August 10, 1863, Parson J.J. Hamilton, a Christian minister, who lived on Patrick's creek, about nine miles south of Weatherford, sent his sons, Wm. and Stewart, to the parson's tannery, to air the hides. Just before noon, when...
Parker County, Texas During 1862, H.R. Frazier, who lived south of Agnes, went to Old Gocian for his son, Don M., then attending a school being conducted by Ambers Cain. Mr. Frazier had heard that Indians were in the community. When Mr. Frazier...
Parker County, Texas During the fall of 1865, or early in 1866, the savages made a horse-stealing raid on Grindstone, in the western part of Parker County. When their presence was discovered, A.J. (Jack) Gorman, Hen. Blue, G.W. Light, H.L. Moss...
Parker County, Texas About 1863, James Franklin, son of Hiram Franklin, who lived about four or five miles west of Weatherford, had been out in search of the cows, and suddenly came upon approximately nine savages. They lodged an arrow so deeply...
Chambers/Visitors Bureaus: Azle | Springtown | Weatherford Uncommemorated Sites from North to South Mann Davis Tackett | Massacre of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Briscoe and Capture of Their Children | Indians Disturb Religious Services in the Terrapin Neck...
Parker County, Texas Authon Cemetery Historical Marker Marker Title: Authon Cemetery Address: On Garner-Adell Rd, off US 180, about 20 mi. W of Weatherford. City: Authon Year Marker Erected: 1981 Marker Location: From Weatherford, take US 180 west...
Parker County, Texas The following story is from the book, A Cry Unheard, by Doyle Marshall: Bill Heffington, son of Stephen Heffington, who took a land grant in the Bear Creek community of southeast Parker County in the mid-1850s, enjoyed the...
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