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wounds. A company of men went back the same
night to look for the rest of our party, but did nol
find thmn until the next day, They found the
corpse of David Faulkenbury near a hole of water.
Hle had cut the long grass and made him a bed on
which to die. About two miles furtliher on they
found the remains of Anderson, withi two arrows
sticking through his back. He had run that distance
after swimming the river, and fell dead.
Evans Faulkenbury was never seen or heard from.
We could see his tracks some distance down the
edge of the water, and we 'supposed he was mortally
wounded. We searched for his body in the
river, but never found it. All my comrades with
me on that occasion perished, and I alone was left
to tell the tale of suffering."
Mr. Anglin remained at Fort Houston until
March,' when he again entered the service as a
Texas Ranger; came to the frontiers, and served
six months. In the fall of 1837, he and his father
and a few others brought their families to the
neighborhood of old Fort Parker. The Indians
became troublesome again in the spring of 1838;
they had to leave their farms and fall back to
Whelock. Here he remained, now following agricultural
pursuits, and then shouldering his rifle as
his country needed his services. In 1844, he served
as a volunteer, and maet the wily Indian on these
same broad prairies that are now being rapidly
filled with peaceable and peace-loving citizens.
Mr. Anglin has helped to drive out the Indian,
and now lives to enjoy the fruits of his toil and
privation. All honor to the veterans of Texas.
At the time of the massacre, there were only six
inmen in the fort; Elder John Parker, Benjamin and
Silas Parker, Samuel and Robert Frost, and J. E.
Dwight. These had been left in the fort while the
others liad gone out for the purpose of working on
tlheir farms. Including the men whose nanmes are
mentioned, there were thirty-four in the fort, eighteen
of whom were children, Mr. r. Dwight was the
only man who escaped from -the fort; all the rest
were killed. Several of the women escaped, and
some were subsequently rescued fro,n the Indians,
as related above. Mrs. Plummer and her son
James Pratt, only about eighteena months of age,
Mrs. Kellogg, and the two oldest children of Silas
Parker, were captured and carried into captivity.
Almost by a miracle, old Granny Parker, as she
was familiarly known, being left for dead, was
rescued by Mi. Anglin and his intrepid party. The
Indians iplundered the fort, killed all the cattle
they could find, fled immediately to the ;mountains,
eaving the dead, and those whlom they thoughtwere dead, exposed to the wild beasts of the
prairie, until they were buried by the returning
party, as narrated above. Their remains now
.repose near Old Fort Parker. Mrs. Plumner, her
child, and others, were carried into captivity,
where they remained for eighteen montlis.
// UTIERERtS, BERNARDO, was one of the
patri6t leaders, under Hidalgo, in Mexico;
was sent by the Revolutionary party, in
1811, as an embassador to the United
States. After the deat of Hidalgo, Bernardo, as he
is usually called, made his home at Nachitodhes,
Louisiana. At the organization on the Sabine, in
1812, of "'The Republican army of the North"
Gutierres became the nominal commander, though
th-e real authority was exercised by Magee. After
the death of Magee and the taking of San Antonio,
in March 1813, Bernardo began, among his own
countrymen, to exercise more authority. He organized
a governing Junta in the city, after the Mexican
fashion; and after the same fashion fourteen
Spanish officers, who had surrendered as prisoners
of war, were put to deat-h. After this barbarous
deed, Bernardo was for a time displaced from command,
but was restored again on the arrival of
Elisondo, with a fresh Spanish army, in AMay. He
acted with great energy,, and marched out and
totally defeated the Spaniards in the battle of the
Alazan, June 5th. Soon after this he 'was sucI
ceeded in the command by Toledo, and he, with
his family, retired again to the east side of the
Sabine, thus escaping tle -disastrous battle of
Medina. In 1819, Bernardo was appointed a member
of the supreme Council, organized by Long at
Nacogdoches,, but he never heartily entered into
Long's scheme of conquest. On the establishment
of the -Republic of Mexico, in 1821, Bernardo became
Governor of Tam aulipas. In company with
his young friend, Almonte, he sailed from New
Orleans to Matamoras, and entered at once upon
the discharge of his duties. It was Ihis good fortune,
in 1823, to capture the exiled Emperor, Iturbide,
soon after he landed at Soto la Marina. As
Congress had already dercreed that if Iturbide
returned to Mexico, he should be shot, Gutierras
without any unnecessary delay proceeded to carry
out the sentence. At the exipration of his term
as Governor he disappeared from public life. Bean,
in his personal narrative, under date at San Carlos,
June 25, 1825, says: "I 'found Don Bernardo,
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