"Crossing Coleman's creek I found where the mare had apparently stumbled in going up the bank and fallen. Coming to a clump of cedars a short distance........”
Birdy I think I showed you Coleman’s creek on the way to the Manor Hill cemetery when you were here that day. The creek runs behind that cemetery and on up crossing the old Blake-Manor road twice in the post oak thicket.
It runs past the old Coleman homestead, where some of the Colonels family was killed in a Comanche raid.
His oldest son and wife were killed. His children who escaped said their brother was shouting numerous names to make it sound as if he had armed confederates in the house with him. ( the other children had made good an escape threw a trapdoor and into nearby woods.).
The boy was allegedly aremed with a "breechloading yager” rifle. Which most suspect was a Hall breechloading flintlock. They were known here.
Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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