Travis County Rural Schools - Defender Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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l 1, I. isfory IN 1839, THERE WERE RESIDING AT WEBBERAB PRAIRIE, NOAH SMITH, JOHN F. WEBBER, FIVE BROTHERS NAMED DUTYQ KNOWN REsPEcTIvELY AS JOSEPH, WILLIAM, MATHEw, GEORGE AND HIGH- ARD? WASHINDTDN ANDERSONQ Hls FATHER, DR. THOMAS ANDERSONQ FouR BROTHERS NAMED HAMIL- TON, ALEXANDER, WILLIAMS, AND JOHNQ DAVID SHELY, UAMES DODD, JOSEPH AND JAMES MANOR, Mns. SCOTT AND HER DAUGHTER, Mns, HOPKINS. TT IS EELIEVED THAT JAMES CASNER AND CRAWH FORD EDMISTON WERE ALSO THERE AT THIS TIME. ITHERE WERE PERHAFS A FEW OTHERS IN THE VIOINITY. THESE SETTLERS HAD BUILT A FORT INTO WHICH ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE NEIGHBOR- WAS PROBABLY FORT COLEMAN, ON COLEMAN WEBBER BUILT ONE AT HIS HOME NEAR THE STANDS. WHILE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN A BODY T0 THEIR SMALL FARMSQ KILL HOOD HAD GATHERED WHEN AN ALARM WAS GIVEN. THIS BRANCH AT THE LOWER END OF THE PRAIRIEI ALTHOUGH RIVER BLUFF WHERE THE VILLAGE OF WEBBERVILLE NOW WERE HOUSED TOGETHER IN A FORT, THE MEN WENT OUT GAME FOR MEATQ AND T0 HUNT INDIANS WHEN NECESSARY. JOHN F. WEBBER, AS STATED ELSEWHERE, WAS THE FIRST SETTLER OF THE PRAIRIE. HE BUILT HIS CABIN WHERE THE RIVER MAKES A SHORT TURN TO THE SOUTHEAST, NEARER THE PLACE 'HERE THE FIRST DWELLING OF JOHN Bn BANKS WAS AFTERWARDS EREOTED. WEBBER WAS REPRESENTED AS BEING AN HONEST, OONSCIENTIOUS MAN, WELL LINED Bi LATIVES FINALLY PROMPTED HIM T0 SELL OUT AND MOVE BER SOLD HIS PossEssIoNs TO COL- BANKS. COLONEL JOHN BANKS CAME FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY A LARGE FARM, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARD, LAID OUT THE BERVILLE. THE VILLAGE BEOAME A FLOURISHING ONE AND coNTINuED ARRIVAL OF THE WESTERN BRANCH NIA. MANOR T0 AusTIN, WHEN IT OEASED TO snow. IT IS sun- ROUNDED BY A RICH FARMIND COUNTRYQ THE PEOPLE ARE INTELLIGENT, EDUCATED AND HDSPITAELE. AFTER THE CLOSE or THE CIVIL WAR, COL. BANKS SOLD HIS PLANTATION TO CARSDN BURLESON AND REMDVED TO GALvEsToN, WHERE HE DIED. COL. BANKS WAS A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE FRDM TRAVIS COUNTY IN 1853. THE FOLLOWING Is AN INDIAN STORY TAKEN FROM lNDIfNjD?fREQATIONS,IN TEXAS, BY U. W. WILBARGER. IT TELLS OF HOW MR. JOSEPH MANOR KILLED AN 'NDIANQ HIS sow, MR. H. L. MANDR, IS NOW LIVING IN WEBBERVILLE. IN THE LATTER PART or THE WINTER OF I8hh, MR. MANOR AND MR. NASH FDRMED A PARTNER- SHIP IN THE MERCANTILE BUSINESS' THEY HAD RECEIVED THEIR FIRST SUPPLY OF aooos AT WEB- BERVILLE,-WHERE THEY WERE ESTABLISHED IN BUSINESS. As THEY WERE ENGAGED IN MARKING AND INVOICING THE cooos, THEIR ATTENTION wAs ATTRADTED BY THE SNORTING OF A MULE THAT MR' MANOR HAD STANED NEAR HIS ROOM FDR sAFE KEEPING. HE STEPPED DUT TO SEE WHAT IT WAS THAT HAD ALARMED HIS MULE, AND DISCOVERED THREE INDIANS APPROACHING IT. As THE INDIANS DREW NEAR IT, THE ANIMAL SNORTED LOUDLY, AND ENDEAVORED TO BREAK THE HDPE BY WHICH IT wAs STAKEDI MHEREUFDN ONE OF THE INDIANS LET FLY AN ARROW AND aHoT IT THROUGH THE BDDY. MR' MANOR SLIPFED BACK INTO TNE Housz, SEIZED HIS GUN, AND SAID TO MR. NASHQ RTHERE ARE INDIANS OUT YONDER. THEY HAVE KILLED MY MuLE. TAKE HIS NEIGHBORS. CONTEMPT DF HIS RE- TD MEXICO. IT WAS IN 1851 THAT WEBQ PRAIRIE WHERE HE OPENED LOWER FRONT CALLED WEBq T0 FRDSPER UNTIL THE TO WEBBERII TowN ON THE SOALPING HIS 'OWN BGALPA MY PISTOL ON LETWS GO ouT BDT MR. NASH WHAT HE SAID AND FDLLowED ARMS. As THEY TURNED A GOR- NER OF THE HOUSE, THEY SAW AN INDIAN STANDING AT THE OP?OSITE ONE, AND MR' MANOR FIRED AT HIM, KILLING HIM. WHEN THE INDIAN FELL, MR.NAsH DREw HIS KNIFE FROM HIS Foc- KET AND STARTED TO eo T0 HIM, SAYING HE WANTED T0 SOALP THE INDIAN IN REVENGE FOR THEIR THE OOUNTER AND AND FIGHT THEM1n DID NOT HEAR ABOUT THE PISTOL HIM WITHOUT ANY FATHER, BUT MR. MANOR HELD HIM BAOK SAYING THERE WERE OTHER INDIANS NEAR AND THAT HE MIGHT LOST HIS TTT I I

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