James Newberry of Parker County, brother of Sam Newberry, whose family settled near Grindstone Creek in Parker County, and for whom the Newberry Community is named, wrote one of the chapters in the book, "Pioneer Days in the Southwest," compiled by John A. Hart and other old timers and published in 1909.  These old timers set down in black and white some of the historic and interesting tales of this vicinity.

James tells a rather gruesome tale of Indian days of the killing of one W. H. (Tip) See by the Indians.  It was in June 1868 that See, who went by the name of Tip and who lived on Buck Creek in Palo Pinto County, was out hunting stock when Indians killed him.  His body was found three days later.

Buck Creek is in the south part of the county, starts down below Patillo and then goes on to join Palo Pinto Creek.

According to James, Tip was a good man, and served in the same company in the Army with him.

A group of Parker County boys had a tangle with Quanah Parker on one of his raids through this section.  The descendants of these guys still live around these parts.

According to James Newberry, Elbert Doss, who lived with his uncle, H. R. Doss, and his brother, John Doss, who lived iwth the writer, James Newberry, Sam Newberry, James Brothers, Milton Ikard, Jr., Tom Cox, Will Gray and a Negro boy, Bose Ikard, were out on a cow hunt, April 24, 1869.

It started raining as James Newberry went out to hunt them, so he started back home thinking they would come on in -- and they did, after a fight with Quanah Parker and a group of Indians.

The boys went on to a roundup that evening and struck an Indian trail and followed it about 12 miles up to Palo Pinto County near where Mineral Wells now stands.

They ran into the Indians in a bluff of rock and timber.  A fight followed and Elbert Doss was killed.  The boys put him on a saddle and one rode behind him on the same horse to hold him on.  They sat him up as though he was living.

James said they did not get any of the Indians they killed but they did see them fall off their horses.  These boys from Parker County were all young men under twenty years of age.

Sam Newberry in Holland's book, "Double Log Cabin," tells he knew he shot an Indian off his horse.  He saw him crawl behind a rock.

Quanah Parker was the leader of the band and Sam said the reason the boys followed the Indians was because the Indians had stolen horses from the settlers on Sandez Creek.  There were 16 Indians in Quanah's band.  Quanah wore a blue Yankee coat with brass buttons, which he was supposed to have gotten from some soldier agency at Fort Sill.

Sam Newberry also said he got one shot at Quanah.

Years later Milt Ikard talked with Quanah in Oklahoma about the fight.  Quanah admitted that the Indians had nine men out of 16 either killed or wounded and lost 12 horses.

The fight near Mineral Wells on the bluff was on April 24, 1869.