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Capt John Allison York Sr.

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Capt John Allison York Sr.

Birth
Alabama, USA
Death
11 Oct 1848 (aged 48)
Karnes County, Texas, USA
Burial
Upper Meyersville, DeWitt County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 28.941043, Longitude: -97.3818589
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A band of thirty five Indians ambushed Captain York and his son-in-law James Madison Bell. They were killed and John's son James York was wounded. The bodies of Captain York and James Madison Bell were buried in a single hand-made oak coffin in the York Cemetery about eight miles east of Yorktown.
A band of thirty five Indians ambushed Captain York and his son-in-law James Madison Bell. They were killed and John's son James York was wounded. The bodies of Captain York and James Madison Bell were buried in a single hand-made oak coffin in the York Cemetery about eight miles east of Yorktown.


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