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Submitted: 10/18/14 • Approved: 10/18/14 • Last Updated: 3/24/18 • R30763-G0-S3
Collin County Indians
Indians living in Collin County were of the Caddo, Cherokee, Delaware, Kickapoo, and Tonkawa tribes. The Delaware had a village in the vicinity of Fitzhugh Mills northeast of Allen. The Tonkawa had a village along Indian Creek northeast of McKinney. These tribes were peaceful farming/hunting Indians.
A Kiowa chief by the name of Spotted Tail moved his band to the flats between Frisco and Prosper in the mid-1840s. As long as his band lived in the area, Collin County was not attacked by marauding Indians. Spotted Tail helped bury the dead in a smallpox epidemic in 1873. He contracted the disease and died from it. He asked for a white man’s burial and was buried at the Buckner Cemetery in McKinney.
Indian Massacre
Around Christmas of 1842 Wesley Clemmons, and a man named Whistler were clearing land around Honey Creek for farming. The Indians attacked. The men ran to their house for their guns. They were killed before they got there. One of the wives and the wife of Sam Young held the Indians at bay from the house until nightfall when they escaped. The other wife was at the creek at the time of the attack. She hid in the water using a reed to breathe until she thought she was safe. All of the women ran toward the Throckmorton settlement for safety. Sam Young was in Bonham at the time of the attack getting supplies.
In the fall of 1843 Jeremiah Muncey and his family were massacred by Indians at their home in north Plano between Plano and Jupiter Roads on the south bank of Rowlett Creek. The Indians had camped upstream the night before. As they proceeded down Rowlett Creek, they came upon two boys hunting. The Rice boy was killed and the Searcy boy escaped. The Indians continued down the creek to the Muncey place. The Muncey home was a lean-to that they were using while they constructed their home. Jeremiah Muncey, his wife, a three-year-old child and neighbor McBain Jameson were all killed. Two of Muncey’s boys were taken by the Indians and never seen again. The site of the massacre is marked, as well as spot where the Munceys were buried.
In 1862 Christian Stelzer was killed east of Celina. Many people attributed it to Indians. It was later revealed that he was killed in an argument over the Civil War.
The attacking Indians usually came in from the west and were Comanche.
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Contributed on 10/18/14 by gasirek
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