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Persönliche Daten Clarinda Loveworth (Aunt Rin) LATHAM 

• Sie ist geboren am 7. April 1867 in Blanco County, Texas.
• Sie ist verstorben nach 1940 in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Sie war ungefähr 72-73 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von George Washington Allen LATHAM und Sarah Jane Gibson

Familie von Clarinda Loveworth (Aunt Rin) LATHAM

Notizen bei Clarinda Loveworth (Aunt Rin) LATHAM

From an article in Frontier Times Magazine - Volume 14 - Number 11; August 1937 entitled «b»«i»James V. Latham: a Texas Ranger «/b»«/i»written by Clarinda L. Latham.

"Our parents settled on Spring Creek in Blanco county, Texas, then in a few

years, moved over to the head of Wright's Creek, at what is known as

the A. Grote Ranch.

Here the marauding Comanche Indians stalked, everready with the scalping knife to murder the pioneers or carry them away. They made three raids on this place, stealing horses. One moonlight night, my father had herded a bunch of horses near the yard fence in the pasture .

My father (George Washinton Allen Latham) with that plucky little Indian

fighter, Uncle Ben M. Gibson, were watching the horses from the port holes in the log cabin . They saw an Indian slipping up to a horse with a rope. They shot at the Indian but he mounted his horse and got away from there as quickly as he could . Jim and

Annie (siblings to Clarinda L. Latham) counted the Indians as they went over the hills, and there were seventeen.

These were the same Indians that had massacred the Johnson women

and children in Legion Valley, Llano couney, the day before . I think

that they had a little boy they had captured there, and they had killed a girl

in Cut-Off Gap, Llano county."

"Our parents were molested by the Indians so much at this ranch that during

the year 1870, they moved down to Pecan Creek, Llano county, near John

Backues and Mr . Ben Phillips. The citizens would take their guns and

guard their children to and from school. Miss Mary Reams taught a

private school at her home about one mile up the creek from father's.

After the children got older, they went through a cedar brake about two

miles to what was known as the Cedar Creek school house. Here M . R. Sheppard

and Rev . J. M. Moore taught school."

From a two-part article in Frontier Times Magazine - Volume 7 - Number 4; January and February 1930 entitled «b»«i»The Old Macedonia Baptist Church «/b»«/i»written by Clarinda L. Latham.

"My mother, Mrs. George Latham, and her step sister-in-law, Mrs. John Backues,

were neighbors and great friends. 0ne Sunday Mrs.Backues, or Aunt Eliza as

we called her, came to our house to spend the day. In the afternoon mother and Aunt

Eliza thought they would take a walk around the place. The older children had

gone up the creek, about three hundred yards away, to my Aunt Harriet Gibson's, and that left Cousin Mallie Backues and myself, who were only six and seven years old, to look after the younger children and the babies.

We were doing nicely until we saw a red cow running toward the house. We

grabbed those babies and little children and broke for Aunt Harriet's . Our

mothers heard our screams and came running to us. They, too, had seen the

cow and saw that she was running from the heelflies and were not frightened ,

but before we got to the creek with the children we saw Aunt Harriet and our

older brother and sisters coming toward us. How happy we were! But I do think

that Mallie and I did a real deserving deed to look out for the little children and not

run off and leave them. However, I am sure that our mothers always taught us if there were Indians around to stay in the house, but we were too badly scared to think

about that."

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