Good God. One can imagine the butchery that would have ensued. Those wer were tough people, I guesss they had to be in that arid, scrubby country.
Yes, they were.
Even in Texas, most people today don’t understand that large portions of Texas were uninhabited long after Statehood.
The Texas revolution took place in 1836. Texas became a US State in 1846. In more than 1/2 of the state, counties were not divided up until after the Civil War. As a consequence, those areas did not vote for Secession.
My ancestors moved to this county in 1889, the county was formed in 1885. When it was settled, often multi-family groups came together (in Wagons). Here, some of those families are still present.
I was the first of my family to move away, was gone 25 years, moved back in 1995. It was always home.
We have a single row planter that was towed behind the wagons when they moved here from near Gatesville. It is a B F Avery planter. Was pulled with a horse or a mule.
My grandfather (born in 1905) used a team of mules to farm when he married my grandmother. He bought one of the early tractors, his father disapproved, he sold the tractor and got another team of mules for a short time. The railroads were built through here in 1907.