In 161 Samuel Kuykendall and a man named Splan were driving two oxen to their home on Resley’s Creek at Dublin. When they were overtaken by Comanches, Kuykendal tried to outrun them, but his horse bogged down in a creek at the present site of Carlton and they “literally filled his body with arrows.” Splan stood between the two oxen and they ignored him.

Floyd J. Holmes, Indian Fights on the Texas Frontier: A True Account of the Last Exciting Encounters with Redskins in Hamilton, Comanche, Brown, Erath, and Adjoining Counties. (As recorded by E.L. Deaton), Fort Worth: Pioneer Publishing Co., 1927.