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History of Fannin County, Texas, 1886-1843
Thomas's deadly aim with the rifle. Tradition has it that he
dragged the weakened Daugherty a great part of the distance. It
is certain that the two reached the safety of the fort at nightfall.
The next morning John P. Simpson and a party went to the
scene of the massacre. William Daugherty had been scalped three
times and his naked skull crushed with a tomahawk. Young
McCarty was discovered at the creek shot full of arrows, un-
scalped but decapitated except for a small ligament. The bodies
were conveyed to Ft. Inglish, and their burial was the second to be
held in the Old Inglish cemetery. Dyer's force returned soon
after this killing without having accomplished any material re-
sults.10
During the summer and autumn of 1838 three forts were con-
structed as places of refuge for the harassed settlers of Fannin
County. A stockade was built at Warren to afford protection for
the pioneers along Red River and Choctaw Bayou. Many availed
themselves of its shelter and camped within the walls while others
lived in tents and houses nearby. Cows were pastured under
guard. The pioneer wives and mothers kept their spinning wheels
and looms busy. The men tilled the fields co-operatively, some
watching, and some plowing. Among those who camped at War-
ren at this period were the Shannon brothers, Micajah Davis, the
Caruthers brothers, Henry Green and Daniel Dugan and their
families." The settlers on Bois D'Arc and Timber Creek de-
pended for safety on Ft. Inglish,12 while the families in the North
Sulphur section built a fort in the southwestern part of Lamar
County, some ten miles east of present-day Ladonia. At this stock-
ade, Lyday's Fort (so called for its commandant, Captain Isaac
Lyday), there were concentrated some twenty-five or thirty families
"Carter, History of Fannin County, 28 ff. The date of Daugherty and
McCarty's death has been difficult to fix accurately. Simpson intimates
that it was in the fall during the absence of Dyer's Expedition. Catherine
Dugan Taylor says that it was in the autumn after Washburn's death-
Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 387. On December 15, 1838,
Hugh McLeod wrote to President Lamar that he was camped thirty miles
west of Clarksville and that reports were current that several men had
been killed on the frontier by Indians some days before. He adds further
that Gen. Dyer was absent to the westward. That the pioneers to whom
McLeod refers were Daugherty and McCarty there is little doubt. Thus
we are justified in placing the murders on Bois D'Arc in the last week of
November or the first week of December, 1838. Lamar Papers, III.
"'Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 393.
"Carter, History of Faninin County, 42.291
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