The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 4, July 1900 - April, 1901 Page: 119
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The Reminiscences of Mrs. Dilue Harris.
Indians she was in her stocking feet. She did not stop to put on
her shoes, and they carried them off. 'They 'stole one horse. Mrs.
Dyer did not nurse her babe, but reared it by hand. \She had no
near neighbor. She was without a morsel to eat and had only a little
milk she had carried in a bottle when she ran from the house.
They left their house after dark with the intention of going to
Morton's Ferry on the Brazos, fifty miles from where they lived.
Mr. Dyer was walking, and she riding and carrying the babe. She
had 'to ride a man's saddle. They traveled all night, stopping only
on the San Bernard to let the horse feed. They were nearly
starved ,and the 'babe was suffering greatly. They had gone above
the Fort Bend road. They went on to San Felipe and got there
that night. 'They received assistance, rested a few days, and then
went to Mr. Stafford's. He was Mrs. Dyer's father. He would not
consent for them to return to 'the Colorado, but gave them land to
settle -on.
Father and the men got home the last of the year 1834, well
pleased with Brazoria, but found the people in great excitement.
Mexico had landed soldiers at the mo-ut'h of the Brazos, and had
established a garrison at Velasco. There had been a meeting of
the people at Columbia. !Their object was to call a convention to
meet at San Felipe, the capital of Texas.
Father stayed one night at Mr. W. J. Russell's, where he met Mr.
Bennet, Mrs. Russell's brother. Mr. Bennet came to Texas at the
time father did. He had been sick ever since we were shipwrecked,
in tbhe year 1833. He said if he was back in Kentucky with his
negroes nothing -on earth could induce him to come to Texas.
Father 'said Mr. Bennet would die, as he had consumption.
The farmers sold their cotton for a good price and bought family
supplies to last nearly a year. It was a great relief when the men
go;t home.
January, 1835.
'The Indians did not trouble anybody. They traded basket
moccasins embroidered with beads. If they had been so disposed,
they could have murdered the men, 'as there were twenty Indians to
every white man. Mother said she was not scared about the Indians.
She had gone through such a night of horror with the runaw,-v119
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