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26 CAPTAIN JEFF, OR
that he had full faith and hope that "God would protect the right."
So saying he walked out and mounted his tired horse and urged
him forward for one more mile to the spot where Wafford Johnson
and family fell brutally murdered by Big Foot and his savage band.
In twenty minutes from the time he left home his horse that
had carried him seventy or eighty miles in the last twenty-four hours
carried him to the tragic spot of the evening before.
When he reached the place but two or three of his men were
there in his advance. Dismounting, he walked to a pool of blood
where Johnson had lain in the road. There was Big Foot's tracks
plainly to be seen where he had bent over Johnson's body to take off
his pistol belt and scabbord.
In looking further over the ground, the road ran close by a dense
dogwod thicket, in which a noise was heard, and on further examination
of the cause of the noise, it was found that Mrs. Johnson
as she ran her horse close by the thicket, threw her
baby boy of one year old in the thicket, with a mother's never dying
love to the last, that he might escape discovery by the Indians, and
be found by some friendly hand that would kindly take care of her
darling baby boy. The poor little fellow lay where he fell: in the
thicket all night, a prey to the wild beasts of the jungle, with an
arrow through his right arm.
His uncle soon came on the ground, and took the little sufferer
to where he could get nourishment and attention. The circumstances
of the killing of Johnson are supposed to be these:
A Mr. Whitehead, lived about a mile from Johnson. On Sunday
morning Johnson and family, consisting of wife and three children,
visited Mr. Whitehead where they remained until late in the day
when they started home horseback. Mrs. Johnson rode with her oldest
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Maltby, William Jeff. Captain Jeff; or, frontier life in Texas with the Texas Rangers, book, 1906; Colorado, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33010/m1/26/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.