In April of 1865 a man named McDow and his son were splitting post oaks into rails for fencing along Green Creek, a tasks that can be head for miles around. (Just South of Alexander) A brother, Joe Grady McDow, had just driven an ox wagon away with a load of rails when Comanches rode the other two down and killed them. Seven years later vigilantes hanged Joe Grady McDow near the same spot on Green Creek. M.L. Auten, A History of Erath County. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Hardin-Simmons University, August 1951, Texas Tech Southwest Collection, Lubbock.