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Alexandria Gazette
Alexandria, Alexandria County, District Of Columbia
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A family of two men, one woman, two children, and possibly two boys was murdered by unknown Indians on the Trinity River in Texas, about 60 miles from the Chickasaw Agency, around mid-February 1844. Bodies were mutilated; boys possibly captured.
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I have just received a letter from Col Upshaw, dated the 1st inst. stating that some ten days before that time, two men, one woman, and two children, had been killed on the Trinity, in Texas, about sixty miles from the Chickasaw Agency, by Indians, of what nation is not known, but supposed to belong to some of the wandering Tribes, north of, and near Red River. The bodies were literally cut to pieces. The woman was mutilated in a manner too shocking to be inspected. It is supposed that two boys who are missing, have been captured by the same party.—Van Buren (Ark.) Intelligencer, March 16th.
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Trinity, Texas
Event Date
Some Ten Days Before March 1, 1844
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two men, one woman, and two children killed with bodies cut to pieces and woman mutilated; two boys missing and possibly captured.
Event Details
Two men, one woman, and two children killed by Indians of unknown nation, supposed wandering tribes north of and near Red River, on the Trinity in Texas about sixty miles from the Chickasaw Agency.