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washed away, with all improvements, in the great
flood ib 1900. Grandma Scott, who was known to
all of the early settlers as "'Aunt Jane," made her
home with her youngest son, John Scott, but died at
my home in 1908.
My father, Rev. J. W. Scott, first settled on Red
Bluff, a small stream about three miles east of Pipe
Creek. I Was born there November 28, 1872, being
the second child. While we lived on Red Bluff, our
nearest neighbor was Marion Hodges. Father often
hauled cedar timber to San Antonio to sell to obtain
supplies, and when he was on one of these trips,
Mother, with her two children, went to spend the
night with Mt. Hodges' family. The next morning
she went home very early to milk the cows, and found
a calf with an arrow sticking in its side, She hurried
back to Mr. Hodges' and gave the alarm. A party
of ien was organized and took the trail of the Indians
but did not overtake them.
Fatner moved up on the headwaters of Pipe Creek,
near Grandfather Jerry Scott's place, and here the Indianm
often slipped in and stole their horses. At one
time some Mexicans discovered a bunch of Indians on
a mountain near our place, painting and feathering
themselves preparatory to an attack on father and a
Mexicap who were clearing land not far from the
house. They hastened to notify us and the Indians,
no doubt seeingthey had been discovered, went ,ll
another way. At another time father hired a Mexican
named Felipe to clear some land on the West
Prong of Pipe Creek. He failed to come in one night
and whie search was made he was found dead-murdered
by Indians. The place was afterwards called
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Hunter, J. Marvin. Pioneer history of Bandera County : seventy-five years of intrepid history, book, 1922; Bandera, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth27720/m1/65/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.