E.L Deaton, who lived west of Stephenville, reported that “During this winter and spring I was set afoot five different times by Indians stealing my horses. I lost three work oxen, and about thirty head of grown hogs, all killed by the redskins.”

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.