A LIST OF TEXANS WHO HAVE DIED AND BEEN KILLED
BY
MEXICANS AND INDIANS FROM 1828 - 1874
Compiled by Rev. H.S. Thrall
[Transcribed by ©Donna Walton, 2007, from "Texas Scrap Book"]

1828- Baron de Bastrop, first commissioner appointed to issue titles to S.F. Austin, first settler, in his first colony, the Old Three Hundred.

1829- James Brown Austin, died in New Orleans of yellow fever in August

1833- Captain John Austin, D.W. Anthony, Thomas Westall, of cholera in Brazoria County.

1834- Martin De Leon, at Victoria, of cholera. Captain Henry S. Brown.

1835- Colonel Benjamin R. Milam, killed at the storming of San Antonio

1836- March 6- William Barrett Travis, James Bowie, David Crockett, J.B. Bonham, and twenty-six officers and eighty-six men, privates, fell in the Alamo; Colonels James Grant and Morris, on the Agua Dulce; March 27, James W. Fannin and three hundred and twenty others massacred at Goliad; April 21, Dr. M. Motley and seven others killed at San Jacinto; Davis Thomas, killed accidentally at San Jacinto. Died - Stephen Fuller Austin, at Columbia; Lorenzo de Zavala, first vice-president of the Republic of Texas; Colonel Jared E. Groce; Bailey Hardeman, first secretary of treasury of the Republic of Texas; John G. Robinson, killed on Cummings' Creek by Indians. One hundred and fifty-two men perished with Travis. Placido Benevides.

1837-George B. McKinstry, Erastus (deaf) Smith, Colonel Henry Teal (assassinated in camp), Walter C. White, one of the first merchants in Austin's colony, J.S.D. Bynum, A.H. Mills, killed by Indians, Colonel Robert H. Coleman, drowned at the mouth of the Brazos River, James Coryell, killed by Indians.

1838- Judge James Collinsworth, aid to General Houston and first chief justice Republic of Texas; Samuel P. Carson, Robert Eden handy, aid to General Houston at San Jacinto; Peter W. Grayson, first aid to General S.F. Austin in the fall of 1835, at the beginning of the war with Mexico; John A. Wharton, adjutant-general at the battle of San Jacinto; John K. Allen, the father and founder of the city of Houston; Captain Andrew Brisco, commanded company at battle of Concepcion, October 1835; Josiah H. Bell, one of the "Old Three Hundred", first settlers on the Brazos; James Gilliland, killed by Indians; Robert Potter, killed on Caddo lake, Mons. Lapham and ninety others killed by Indians near San Antonio.

1839- Shelby Corzine, William H. Wharton, minister of the United States of America, 1836; Robert Barr, postmaster-general; John Birdsall, S. Rhodes Fisher, secretary of navy; John B. Denton; Byrd Lockhart, Colonel Reuben Ross; Robert Potter, killed ; James Barbour, killed; W. Pettus, Thomas Gay, John W. Hall.

1840- Colonel Henry Karnes, Captain John M. Allen, a captain at San Jacinto; Captain A.B. Switzer, William Burton, Richard Ellis, president of the Convention, 1836; George W. Poe, in battle of San Jacinto; R.R. Royall, member first Provisional Government of Texas; Switzer was killed, 1841; H.C. Watts, killed by Indians.

1841- Captain Philip Dimitt, Richard G. Dunlop, William Fairfax Gray, S.W. Jordan, Major Ben Fort Smith, in battle of San Jacinto; Thomas Rabb, one of the "Old Three Hundred", George C. Childress, author of the Declaration of Independence.

1842- Captain Wiley Martin, Cornelius Van Ness, Matthew Caldwell, Old Paint; Elijah Stapp, Colonel Henry Millard, commanded a battalion at San Jacinto; Nicholas Dawson and his company from Fayette County, killed on the Salado, in 1842

1843- Thomas S. Torrey, John M. Handsford, Thomas Barnet, Dr. R.F. Brenham, killed at Salado, at the time of the rise of the Mier prisoners on the guard; William M. Eastland and sixteen others, decimated and shot; Ewin Cameron, shot by order of Santa Anna; Hugh P. Kerr.

1844- Judge Patrick C. Jack, Colonel William H. Jack, Judge Richard Morris, Commander J.K.T. Lathrop, Asa Brigham, treasurer of the Republic; G.W. Barnett, killed by Indians on the Guadaloupe; John W. Potter Elijah Stapp.

1845- John Rice Jones, postmaster-general of the Republic, Kenneth L. Anderson, Josiah Wilbarger, from the effects of Indian wounds inflicted when he was scalped; G.A. Parker, Dr. J.A.E. Phelps, Colonel William S. Fisher.

1846- Captain R.A. Gillespie, James Gillespie, Judge John P. Coles, one of the "Old Three Hundred", his wife, Mrs. Elleanor Coles, died in 1874. Joseph Baker.

1847- John M. Allen, mayor of Galveston; Colonel William G. Cook, Dr. John G. Chalmers, Munroe Edwards, at Sing Sing, N.Y.; Thomas I. Smith, Isaac Van Zandt, Captain Samuel H. Walker, John H. Walton, E.L.R. Wheelock, Van R. Irion.

1848- Captain Mosely Baker commanded the largest company at the battle of San Jacinto; Captain M.B. (Mustang) Gray, Thomas (Ramrod) Johnson, Richard Bache. Ferdinand DeLeon, Fr. Bonnett.

1849- Nicholas Boyce, Dr. C.A. Perry, General Ed. Moorehouse, General Worth, S.H. Everett, Joseph L. Bennett, Colonel Lewis P. Cook, John W. Brown, Captain Samuel Highsmith, Oliver Buckner.

1850- James Kerr, David S. Torrey, killed by Indians, Middleton M. Hill, John Keenan, James Gilbert White, Josiah J. Crosby, William H. Ewing, W.D. Hargrove, Edward Eitzgerald, Hiram Baldwin, Charles A. Bullard.

1851- General Edward Burleson, David S. Kaufman, Mrs. Emily M. Perry, sister of Stephen F. Austin; Thomas M. Wooldridge, George W. Hockley, inspector-general and commanded the artillery at San Jacinto; Albert G. Vail, John Durst, of Leon county; Don Jose Antonio de la Garza, at San Antonio, aged 62 years; Francis Bingham, one of the "Old Three Hundred", Thomas M.R. Bankhead, Asbury James, Lamar Moore.

1852- James Franklin Perry, brother-in-law of Stephen F. Austin, Wm. M. Cushney, Taylor White, Adolphus Sterne, Francis Berry, M.M. Chevalie, Charles L. McGehee, Glover W. Blanton, B.H. Martin, Wm McDonald, Ignacio Perez, Samuel H. Lackie.

1853- Ex-Governor Henry Smith and ex-Lieutenant-Governor Jas. W. Robinson, both in California; Colonel Barnard E. Bee, secretary of war of Republic of Texas; A.S. Cunningham, James Powers, Dr. Moses Johnson, Matthias Wilbarger, James Hodges, Robert Smithers, Dr. Enos Mabry, James H. Cocke, L.R.B. Jasper. Thomas Simons and Isaac Mitchell.

1854- Dr. James B. Miller, David Gage, General Memucan Hunt, Major McNutt, in command of camp guard at the time of the battle of San Lacinto; General Alexander Somerville, lieutenant-colonel in battle of San Jacinto, a good and brave man; Thomas J. Hardeman, the one who proposed the name for the capital of Texas in 1839, James F. Leyttle, Wash Secrets, one of the Deaf Smith's spies; Virgil A. Stewart, William C. Henry.

1855- Thomas P. Cartmel, George Sutherland, had his horse shot on the 20th, at San Jacinto, from under him when Sherman attacked the Mexicans; John Duty, of Webberville; L.D. Barry, Captain G.K. (Legs) Lewis, Daniel Mosely.

1856- Dr. Branch T. Archer, secretary of war under the republic; James H. Callahan, Judge A.S. Lipscomb, Robert Wilson (Honest Bob), Judge James Webb, secretary of state under the republic; Henderson Yoakum, Richard Bache, James P. Caldwell, Judge Nelson H. Munger, ex-Governor George T. Wood, Jim Campbell, one of Lafitte's men.

1857- Seth Ingram, one of S.F. Austin's first surveyors; General Felix Huston, ex-Governor J. Pinckney Henderson, General Thomas J. Rusk, first secretary of war under the Republic of Texas, and in battle of San Jacinto; Dr. John Shackelford, captain of company under Colonel J.W. Fannin, and was saved to doctor wounded Mexicans at the Alamo in 1836; Hiram G. Runnels, ex-governor of Mississippi; General James Hamilton, of South Carolina, went down in the steamer Nautilus; J.A. Greer, Leonidas B. Aldridge; Erasmo Seguin, Spanish commissioner to show Stephen F. Austin the territory he was to colonize.

1858- James H. Durst, Judge Robert M. (Three-legged Willie) Williamson, (the great orator of Texas); Michel B. Menard, the founder of the city of Galveston; William Fields, ex-President Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas; Captain Timothy Pillsbury, General E. H. Tarrant, Colonel Samuel M. Williams, secretary of Stephen F. Austin's several colonies, and navy agent of the Republic of Texas.

1859- Major Robert S. Neighbors, ex-President Mirabeau B. Lamar, Judge Isaac W. Breashear, J.W. Latimer.

1860- Judge M.P. Norton, B.B. Goodrich, Collin McKinney; Commodore E. W. Moore, Colonel Matt Ward, James C. Wilson, John Rabb, Samuel A. Bogart, Henry L. Kinney, John D. Pitts of Hays county, Eliot M. Millican

1861- Forbes Brittan, John Cameron, an empresario; Colonel Benjamin Frank Terry, killed in Kentucky; General Hugh McLeod.

1862- Colonel Clark L. Owen, Henry L. Allen, Captain James G. Swisher at the storming of San Antonio in December 1835; Judge John Hemphill, General A. Sidney Johnston, Colonel Thomas S. Lubbock, General Benjamin McCulloch, Judge Richardson Scurry, General Allison Nelson, William C. Young, Judge Samuel Luck, General James L. Hogg.

1863- Ebenezer Allen, A.C. Allen, General Sam Houston, "the Hero of San Jacinto"; Colonel James Riley, ex-attorney-general; James Willie, Alexander Thompson, a member of the first Provisional Government of Texas; Dr. Asa Hoxie.

1864- General Tom Green, General John Gregg, General Thomas Jefferson Green, in North Carolina; Dr. Francis Moore, former editor of the Telegraph; J.W. Cruger, General William R. Scurry, John A. Wilcox, Henry J. Jewett, S.H. Morgan, A.P. Wiley, Judge C.W. Buckley, Judge Royal T. Wheeler, B.M. Hatfield, August Buchel

1865- General John A. Wharton, Thomas J. Chambers, George T. Howard, ex-Governor Pendleton Murrah, Dr. Joseph Rowe, General Philip M. Guney, ex-Governor A.C. Horton, Shirbal Marsh, M.K. Snell.

1866- Ben. F. Hill, George W. Smythe, Jesse Grimes, Lorenzo Sherwood.

1867- Major Ben. White, Colonel Ira. R. Lewis, Judge W.B. Ochiltree, James Scott, C.C. Herbert, Dr. W. P. Kitrell, George Wilkins Kendall, Colonel Warren D.C. Hall, adjutant-general in 1835.

1868- Colonel Oliver Jones, one of the "Old Three Hundred"; Judge W. S. Oldham, Ira A. Paschal, Judge James J. Holt, Colonel John M. Dancy, George W. Glasscock, Rev Hugh Wilson, H.R. Cartmell, Abram Clare.

1869- Dr. N.D. Labadie, Andrew Rabb, on of the "Old Three Hundred"; John S. Sydnor, S. Addison White, George W. Crawford, Joseph Polly, one of the "Old Three Hundred"; T. Scott Anderson, Matthias Feelcood.

1870- Jose Antonio Navarro, ex-President David G. Burnet, John Caldwell, Samuel A. Maverick, Captain John Dix, Doctor James Hewitson, and empresario, died at Saltillo; Judge William E. Jones, Dr. C. G. Keenan, Samuel A. Roberts, David Cole, Judge William Pinckney Hill, Milton Irish (in California); Samuel K. McClelland, Jesse Amason, Matthew Cartwright, Eli Mitchell, N.W. Tiveson, Dr. William P. Smith, Darius Gregg, Rev. A. J. McGown, W.B. Jaques, George Noessel, Alfred Allec, Tipton Walker, H. January, Captain W. Hurd, Albert G. Haines.

1871- William M. Varnell, Thomas H. McMahan, William Dever, one of the "Old three Hundred"; Charles Shearn, F.H. Merriman, Milton Stapp, Stephen Southwick, Don Campbell, W.W. Browning, C.G. Young.

1872- Thomas William Ward, one of those who stormed San Antonio, December 1835; S. Holland, Nat. Benton, David Snively, Willis L. Robards, Captain N. Hand, of the navy; B. Ed. Tarver, General A.B. Nichols, E.P. Hunt, Dr. William McCraven, Algernon Thompson, John K. Fowler.

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