Husband of Sarah Long (born in Ireland).
According to Genealogy of the Hannum Family, John and Sarah, their daughter Elizabeth, and son Silverious died at "Dillon Colony, now Lavaca County, Texas", on April 5, 1836, "killed by Indians". "Dillon Colony" refers to De León's colony, a predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, which was established in 1824 by Martín De León.
"His massacred family members were buried on the banks of Clark's Creek, which.... cuts through the original Douglass land for more than a mile and a half." Source: The Yoakum Herald-Times, November 24, 1953.
"When they returned to their home in 1837, they found their families bodies still undisturbed." Source: Kaiser, Veraline, et al. 1869-1969 St. Joseph's Parish, Yoakum, Texas. 2nd ed. 1982.
Frontier Times VOLUME 12-NO. 4 JANUARY, 1935
Camp Cooper Was Scene of Indian Massacre
Paul Boethel, Hallettsville, Texas
Early in March, 1836, the Indian's attacked the families of Douglas and O'Dougherty on Clark's Creek. These Irish families had come to Texas in 1832 from Pennsylvania and were neighbors. Most of the families in the section had departed for the east, and Douglass and O 'Dougherty were hastily constructing a means of conveyance with which to join the wild flight "The Runaway Serape". The families were ready to start on the morning of March 4th, and Thaddeus and Augustus Douglass were sent out on the range for the oxen to draw the sleds. They returned to find their home in ashes and their people killed. The entire family of O'Dougherty, consisting of Bernard O'Dougherty, wife , two daughters age 12 and 14, and a boy 10 years old, were murdered. Tn the family of John Douglass, they killed Douglass, his wife, a son and a daughter. The plunder of the murdered families was subsequently found among the Toneahue Indians, and the guilt was fixed on them.
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de la Peña, José Enrique. With Santa Anna in Texas. trans. Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A & M University, 1975.
A Mexican historian who was with the Mexican army under Santa Anna in its eastward pursuit of the Texas army wrote. "On the 12th [of April] the crossings [of several rivers] continued, and I met two young boys of ten or twelve who lived in one of the dwellings on the banks of the river and who, having gone hunting, returned to find their parents gone. Looking for help where they knew people lived, they ran into the troops. They assured me that several families had fled. Through the compassion that is naturally aroused by the sad plight of orphans, I asked to take one of them and that one of my companions should take the other, but we were told that they were to leave the next day with a Frenchman, who had already taken charge of them the day before and who had himself escaped from the enemy, leaving with them his wife and six children, three of them adopted."
According to Genealogy of the Hannum Family, John and Sarah, their daughter Elizabeth, and son Silverious died at "Dillon Colony, now Lavaca County, Texas", on April 5, 1836, "killed by Indians". "Dillon Colony" refers to De León's colony, a predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, which was established in 1824 by Martín De León.
"His massacred family members were buried on the banks of Clark's Creek, which.... cuts through the original Douglass land for more than a mile and a half." Source: The Yoakum Herald-Times, November 24, 1953.
"When they returned to their home in 1837, they found their families bodies still undisturbed." Source: Kaiser, Veraline, et al. 1869-1969 St. Joseph's Parish, Yoakum, Texas. 2nd ed. 1982.
Frontier Times VOLUME 12-NO. 4 JANUARY, 1935
Camp Cooper Was Scene of Indian Massacre
Paul Boethel, Hallettsville, Texas
Early in March, 1836, the Indian's attacked the families of Douglas and O'Dougherty on Clark's Creek. These Irish families had come to Texas in 1832 from Pennsylvania and were neighbors. Most of the families in the section had departed for the east, and Douglass and O 'Dougherty were hastily constructing a means of conveyance with which to join the wild flight "The Runaway Serape". The families were ready to start on the morning of March 4th, and Thaddeus and Augustus Douglass were sent out on the range for the oxen to draw the sleds. They returned to find their home in ashes and their people killed. The entire family of O'Dougherty, consisting of Bernard O'Dougherty, wife , two daughters age 12 and 14, and a boy 10 years old, were murdered. Tn the family of John Douglass, they killed Douglass, his wife, a son and a daughter. The plunder of the murdered families was subsequently found among the Toneahue Indians, and the guilt was fixed on them.
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de la Peña, José Enrique. With Santa Anna in Texas. trans. Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A & M University, 1975.
A Mexican historian who was with the Mexican army under Santa Anna in its eastward pursuit of the Texas army wrote. "On the 12th [of April] the crossings [of several rivers] continued, and I met two young boys of ten or twelve who lived in one of the dwellings on the banks of the river and who, having gone hunting, returned to find their parents gone. Looking for help where they knew people lived, they ran into the troops. They assured me that several families had fled. Through the compassion that is naturally aroused by the sad plight of orphans, I asked to take one of them and that one of my companions should take the other, but we were told that they were to leave the next day with a Frenchman, who had already taken charge of them the day before and who had himself escaped from the enemy, leaving with them his wife and six children, three of them adopted."
Husband of Sarah Long (born in Ireland).
According to Genealogy of the Hannum Family, John and Sarah, their daughter Elizabeth, and son Silverious died at "Dillon Colony, now Lavaca County, Texas", on April 5, 1836, "killed by Indians". "Dillon Colony" refers to De León's colony, a predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, which was established in 1824 by Martín De León.
"His massacred family members were buried on the banks of Clark's Creek, which.... cuts through the original Douglass land for more than a mile and a half." Source: The Yoakum Herald-Times, November 24, 1953.
"When they returned to their home in 1837, they found their families bodies still undisturbed." Source: Kaiser, Veraline, et al. 1869-1969 St. Joseph's Parish, Yoakum, Texas. 2nd ed. 1982.
Frontier Times VOLUME 12-NO. 4 JANUARY, 1935
Camp Cooper Was Scene of Indian Massacre
Paul Boethel, Hallettsville, Texas
Early in March, 1836, the Indian's attacked the families of Douglas and O'Dougherty on Clark's Creek. These Irish families had come to Texas in 1832 from Pennsylvania and were neighbors. Most of the families in the section had departed for the east, and Douglass and O 'Dougherty were hastily constructing a means of conveyance with which to join the wild flight "The Runaway Serape". The families were ready to start on the morning of March 4th, and Thaddeus and Augustus Douglass were sent out on the range for the oxen to draw the sleds. They returned to find their home in ashes and their people killed. The entire family of O'Dougherty, consisting of Bernard O'Dougherty, wife , two daughters age 12 and 14, and a boy 10 years old, were murdered. Tn the family of John Douglass, they killed Douglass, his wife, a son and a daughter. The plunder of the murdered families was subsequently found among the Toneahue Indians, and the guilt was fixed on them.
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de la Peña, José Enrique. With Santa Anna in Texas. trans. Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A & M University, 1975.
A Mexican historian who was with the Mexican army under Santa Anna in its eastward pursuit of the Texas army wrote. "On the 12th [of April] the crossings [of several rivers] continued, and I met two young boys of ten or twelve who lived in one of the dwellings on the banks of the river and who, having gone hunting, returned to find their parents gone. Looking for help where they knew people lived, they ran into the troops. They assured me that several families had fled. Through the compassion that is naturally aroused by the sad plight of orphans, I asked to take one of them and that one of my companions should take the other, but we were told that they were to leave the next day with a Frenchman, who had already taken charge of them the day before and who had himself escaped from the enemy, leaving with them his wife and six children, three of them adopted."
According to Genealogy of the Hannum Family, John and Sarah, their daughter Elizabeth, and son Silverious died at "Dillon Colony, now Lavaca County, Texas", on April 5, 1836, "killed by Indians". "Dillon Colony" refers to De León's colony, a predominantly Mexican colony in Texas, which was established in 1824 by Martín De León.
"His massacred family members were buried on the banks of Clark's Creek, which.... cuts through the original Douglass land for more than a mile and a half." Source: The Yoakum Herald-Times, November 24, 1953.
"When they returned to their home in 1837, they found their families bodies still undisturbed." Source: Kaiser, Veraline, et al. 1869-1969 St. Joseph's Parish, Yoakum, Texas. 2nd ed. 1982.
Frontier Times VOLUME 12-NO. 4 JANUARY, 1935
Camp Cooper Was Scene of Indian Massacre
Paul Boethel, Hallettsville, Texas
Early in March, 1836, the Indian's attacked the families of Douglas and O'Dougherty on Clark's Creek. These Irish families had come to Texas in 1832 from Pennsylvania and were neighbors. Most of the families in the section had departed for the east, and Douglass and O 'Dougherty were hastily constructing a means of conveyance with which to join the wild flight "The Runaway Serape". The families were ready to start on the morning of March 4th, and Thaddeus and Augustus Douglass were sent out on the range for the oxen to draw the sleds. They returned to find their home in ashes and their people killed. The entire family of O'Dougherty, consisting of Bernard O'Dougherty, wife , two daughters age 12 and 14, and a boy 10 years old, were murdered. Tn the family of John Douglass, they killed Douglass, his wife, a son and a daughter. The plunder of the murdered families was subsequently found among the Toneahue Indians, and the guilt was fixed on them.
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de la Peña, José Enrique. With Santa Anna in Texas. trans. Carmen Perry. College Station: Texas A & M University, 1975.
A Mexican historian who was with the Mexican army under Santa Anna in its eastward pursuit of the Texas army wrote. "On the 12th [of April] the crossings [of several rivers] continued, and I met two young boys of ten or twelve who lived in one of the dwellings on the banks of the river and who, having gone hunting, returned to find their parents gone. Looking for help where they knew people lived, they ran into the troops. They assured me that several families had fled. Through the compassion that is naturally aroused by the sad plight of orphans, I asked to take one of them and that one of my companions should take the other, but we were told that they were to leave the next day with a Frenchman, who had already taken charge of them the day before and who had himself escaped from the enemy, leaving with them his wife and six children, three of them adopted."
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