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From: "Sandra Van Wyk" <>
Subject: Re: [SouthernTrails] ndians
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 19:33:50 -0600
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Jerry and others,

I have two questions: I have relatives, a man, his wife and a baby, who
died in 1856 in Fayette County Texas. I know this is south and east of
Central Texas, but do you know what might have happened in that county in
1856. Or possibly it was just a consequence they all died the same year.

Having lived in Texas most of my life, I have always heard the expression,
"if the Lord willing and the creek don't rise" I always assumed the creek
don't rise to mean a river or creek. Could it mean if the Creek Indians
don't have an uprising or rise up. What do you think?

Sandy Van Wyk


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From: "Coffee" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: [SouthernTrails] ndians


> After the Confederacy abandoned the military camps along the Texas
> frontier, Indian depredations again became a problem to settlement. The
> Peneteka Comanches under Chief Santa Anna were moved from the Central
Texas
> region after a cholera epidemic in 1857. In 1858, the Penetekas were
> removed from their long time camp on top of the 250 foot mesa called Santa
> Anna Mountain in what later became Coleman County, Texas, and were
relocated
> to the new Comanche Reservation in Throckmorton County, near Camp Cooper.
> Five companies of the U.S. 2nd Cavalry, under the command of Colonel
Robert
> E. Lee were stationed at Camp Cooper during that period. In 1859, the
> Indians were again moved to the new reservation in the Indian Nation, near
> what became Lawton, Oklahoma.
> Kiowa Indians became the threat to the frontier settlements from1861
> until the last Indian depredations in 1875 which took place in Coleman
> County on the Coffey - Wylie - Coggin cattle range and on Sand Creek in
> what became northern Brown County. In December, 1875 Kiowa renegades led
> by Big Foot tortured and murdered the wife of Jim Williams and killed
their
> infant son and twelve year old daughter. Jim Williams and his older son
were
> cutting fence rails on Jim Ned Creek, a few miles to the north, returned
> to find his family dead and his home plundered. Capt. William Jeff
Maltby,
> along with Jim Williams and Company E of the Texas Ranger Frontier
> Battalion trailed Big Foot to the northwest and destroyed him and his
band
> of renegades. In September 1872, a cowboy rounding up strays on the Rich
> Coffey - Robert K. Wylie - S.R. Coggin cattle range, in what later
became
> Coleman County, was killed by a party of Kiowas led by Lone Wolf. Lone
> Wolf (Guigapo) along with the last of the Tsetanma, a militant band of
> Kiowas, were returning from an attack on a government wagon train near
> Howard's Wells on the San Antonio - El Paso Road with the body of Lone
> Wolf's son, Tau-ankia (Sitting-in-the-Saddle). With fresh mounts stolen
> from a U.S. Army camp on the North Concho River, the Indians fought off a
> patrol of the Ninth U.S. Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers from Fort Concho. Lone
> Wolf and his Tsetanma returning to Kiowa country in the Texas Panhandle,
> the band stopped and buried Tau-ankia on top of a mountain later called
Lone
> Wolf Mountain in what later became Mitchell County, five miles north of
> Lorraine Texas. My great grandfather's brother, John James Coffee, lived
> near Lorraine, Texas and said that in 1902, rancher Harvey Muns witnessed
> fires on top of Lone Wolf Mountain. Muns told Coffee that two wagonloads
of
> Oklahoma Indians encamped there, stayed about five days, and left a large
> hole in the mountain. Muns said the Indians came to recover the bones of
> Tau-ankia that had been buried there by his father twenty-eight years
> earlier.
>
> My great grandfather's brother, John James Coffee, is buried in the
Lorraine
> Cemetery in Mitchell, County. John James Coffee is the grandfather of Don
> Ruth Merritt, one of our finest Coffee family researchers. My great
> grandfather Joshua David Coffee, settled in western Brown County in 1877
in
> view of Santa Anna Mountain, ten miles distant. Joshua "Doss" Coffee
drove
> freight wagons through Flat Top,Texas, toSan Angelo, Texas. Flat Top was
a
> overnight stage and wagon stop on the Coffey - Wylie - Coggin cattle
range.
> In 1978, James Coffey, former Chairman of the Comanche Nation,
approached
> the U.S. Government and made an attempt to make Santa Anna Mountain and
> surrounding grassland a sacred Comanche National Buffalo Hunting Ground.
>
> Jerry Coffee
> Plano, Texas
>
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