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No. 254 MEMORIAL FROM CITIZENS OF KERR COUNTY [APRIL 16, 1859] To The Governor of the State of Texas: The undersigned, resident citizens of the county of Kerr, respectfully represent that, on the evening of April elev- enth, 1859, Roland Nichols, late county commissioner of this county, was brutally murdered by Indians within three miles of his home, on the north bank of the Guadalupe, some six or seven miles above Kerrsville, in said county. Immediately thereafter, depredations were committed upon cattle and horses, in that neighborhood, and the settlement below Kerrsville, on the banks of the Guadalupe. Three head of horses were killed, five rode off, and cattle killed and wounded. An at- tempt was made, at first without, yet, finally with success, to stampede a drove of horses belonging to Doctor Nowlin-even while the animals were in the pen. The savages then passed down Cypress creek, and were trailed, by nine soldiers of the U. S. Army to within five miles of Comfort, the more populous village west of New Braunfels. They escaped without punishment. In view of the total ineffi- ciency of U. S. regular troops to compete with the savage foe that molests our borders, we respectfully ask that The Governor of The State of Texas call out a company of Rangers to protect the frontiers from the stealthy incursions of the barbarian en- emy. Mr. Nichols left a wife and ten children. All the eldest of his children being females a jury of inquest was held upon the body of the deceased, and their verdict was in accordance with the fact stated--death by the hands of the Indians: C. C. Quin- lan, J. P. and ex officio Coroner Jurymen: De Witt Burney; R. White; R. Burney; W. Harbor; Hart; J. D. Buchanan. A more audaciously bold onset has seldom if ever, been made by a savage force on any portion of our wide frontier. The trail- ers reported the number of Indians to be four. All of which is respectfully submitted. Comfort, April 16, 1859 H. DEGENER
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FRIEDREICH SCHMIDT S BAPP BUD. KANSHANJEN
CHALS HERBST CHARLES HILKE TOHAM STACHER
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