On this day in Texas history · April 19

Catherine McLauren

Leakey · Real County · placed 1971

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A victim of the last Indian raid in Frio Canyon, April 19, 1881. Mother of three small children, "Kate" McLauren was home with them and a neighbor boy, Allen Lease, when a Lipan Apache band started to plunder their house. Although shot with a bullet, she sent her six-year-old child, Maud, for help, but died shortly after her husband John's return that night.

When the cemetery in Leakey was established, she and Lease were the first burials. Recorded 1971

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