Throckmorton County Texas
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THROCKMORTON COUNTY TEXAS!
Throckmorton county was also
a part of the Peters colony, later know as T. E. and L Company. She was
governed by Bexar District until after the Texas Revolutionary war. Also,
considered part of Texas Indian Territory by the state of TEXAS
for
the Comanches, Tonkawas, Lipan Apaches, Kickapoo, Wichitas. In 1851 The
Comanche Reservation and Camp Cooper was established by the state of TEXAS
the Federal Government to control the Comanches and teach them to be civilize
as the European interlopers and squatters who had trespassed into their
land. [This author is writing this introduction
through the eyes of the Native American, putting her self in their moccasins,
the Great Spirit willing to teach her. It is true facts, uncovering the
fables which our History Teachers have been forced to tell
and Government has told. Lets look at the other side of the coin.]
In CHRISMAN's history, "The
Early Days in Callahan County," he states, " Camp Cooper ranks among the
most interesting of all the frontier forts. It was established approximately
seven miles above the South Fork of the Brazos River."
" This Camp was Primarily established
for the purpose of guarding the restless Comanche Indians and was located
adjacent to the Upper Reservation which had been selected and surveyed
by R. B. MACY and MAJOR ROBERT S. NEIGHBORS. Camp Cooper was established
on July 29, 1851 and was first occupied by Companies A, H, and F of the
Fifth U. S. Infanty under the command of Captain John A. Whitall. This
fort was not fully recognized as a military post until January 2, 1856,
when troops under Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee of the Second Cavalry
arrived at the historical cantonment. To be continued on another page:
{After Indian Removal on August 1, 1859,
to relative safety from former Indian agent, JOHN R. BAYLOR
to the WICHITA Agency, on the Washita River in present Caddo County
Oklahoma, four miles east of Anadarko.
JOHN R. BAYLOR had dreams of Riches by
stealing from the Agency was short lived by dismissal on May 14, 1857 ,
but he spend the next 3 years insighting a Hate complain against the 2
Reservations and their occupiers. After Majors Neighbors returned to Belknap
, one of Baylor's friends shot him in the back as another confronted him
to his face, he died on the streets of the town of Belknap in Young county
but saved his wards temporarily. source: Frances Mayhugh Holden's
book "LAMBSHEAD BEFORE INTERWOVEN", pages 60 through 80.}
It was here in 1851 on the banks
of Lambhead Creek in THROCKMORTON COUNTY, that COLONEL JESSE STEM, one
of the first frontier entrepreneurs and agent for the TEXAS INDIANS, was
supposily the first person of record to obtain, improve, and culivate the
land to become known as LAMBSHEAD. COL. STEM is reported murdered in February,
1854 but his widow and children seems to have secured 960 acres in three
320 acre plots, secured from orginal grantees, JOSEPH H. DALTON AND THOMAS
MOUNTS, were patented in his name , Mrs STEM added by patent 640 acres
in 1855, secured from the orginial grantee, JOHN CARR. Others filed on
small parcels of land, but there is no record that they lived out their
claim, though some may have done so.
Little is known of the
early life of JESSE STEM other than that he came from a substantial family
in OHIO, that he was trained as a lawyer, that he had a respiratory health
problem, and that he followed the standard treatment for such illness in
the 1800's to seek a drier climate. he found it in TEXAS, where in 1850
he was commissioned as federal
agent for the TEXAS INDIANS. He had two brothers, successful businessmen
in TIFFIN, OHIO. to be continue :source:
Frances Mayhugh Holden's book "LAMBSHEAD BEFORE INTERWOVEN".
THE NAME OF LAMBSHEAD
is believed to be bought to the Clear Fork Country and THROCKMORTON
COUNTY by THOMAS LAMBSHEAD who was born in 1805, in England where
he became a farmer near Devon. Thomas LAMDSHEAD was seeking fame and fortune
in the TEXAS frontier as did
JESSE STRMS and others who settled on the rugged and fertile
TEXAS INDIAN TERRITORY.
"In the 1840's, glowing descriptions were poured into the Englishman's
ears by SHERMAN CONVERSE, a London promoter for the ill-fated Peters
Colony in western Texas. Colonizers in Louisville, Kentucky, organized
the colony and negotiated with President Sam Houston in January 1841, to
settle immigrants in the REPUBLIC of TEXAS in the largest empressario colony
the REPUBLIC ever granted. By July, 1843, the Kentuckians had taken
in London parterns. The Peters Colony then encompassed what would become
twenty-six Texas counties, including nearly all of future THROCKMORTON
AND SHACKELFORD COUNTIES."
". . . a CITIZEN of the frontier, THOMAS
LAMBSHEAD played a central role in the establishment of THROCKMORTON COUNTY.
Created January 13, 1858, the county was named for DR. WILLIAM E. THROCKMORTON,
one of the first settlers of North Texas.
THOMAS LAMBSHEAD, WILLIAM L. BROWNING, and ROBERT KING were appointed
commissioners to organize the county. Their charge was to call an
election of county officers and to select not less than three suitable
places within five miles of the center of the county to be considered for
the county seat. Also, all courts were to be held at TARRANT and GIBBONS
RANCH on Elm Creek until a suitable building could be erected. However,
the removal of the Indians resevation in 1859 and the outbreck of the CIVIL
WAR in 1861, together with INDIAN outrages, and Federal Reconstruction
delayed the county's organization until 1879...."
:source: Frances Mayhugh
Holden's book "LAMBSHEAD BEFORE INTERWOVEN".
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