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Here Sleep the Victims of the "Webster Massacre"

Leander · Williamson County · placed 1936

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Williamson County, Texas

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Here sleep the victims of the "Webster Massacre" of August 27, 1839. About thirty homeseekers headed by John Webster en route to what is now Burnet County, were attacked by a band of Comanche Indians. After attempting to flee under cover of darkness, they were trapped in this vicinity.

Mrs. Webster and her two children were captured and later released. All the others were killed.

Martha Webster then but three years old was later married to Marmaduke Strickland. (1936)

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Here Sleep the Victims of the "Webster Massacre"

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