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I scanned and then cut and pasted this. Thought it might be of interest to
all of you. The book "Texas Indian Fighters", is not available for
inter-library load. I copied this section of it on a trip to the library at
Uvalde.
Hope you enjoy the reading
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508 TEXAS INDIAN FIGHTERS.
M. C. CLICK.
Came to Texas in 1863.
While traveling through the mountain country of Bandera County hunting
for frontier incidents, the writer had the. pleasure of spending a night
under the hospitable roof of Mr. M. C. Click, who lived at that time in the
Hondo Canvon, about two miles south of the Bandera and Utopia road.
While Mr. Click is not one of the earliest settlers of this counthry. He
came here, before all of the Indians were gone, and has many true and
interesting tales to tell of their daring raids and bloody deeds. He came
from Arkansas to Texas in 1863, and to Bandera County shortly after. In 1875
he moved to Hondo Canyon, but there were already some settlers here and had
been for some time. The following incident, which took place before he came
here, is a fact which he was familiar with:
In 1866 David Cryer and a Mr. Foster, who lived in the canyon north of the
Bandera road, went to the town of Bandera in a two-horse wagon, purchased
supplies, and came back across the mountains through the pass, and saw no
signs of Indians until arriving near a noted mountain called the Suar Loaf,
from its peculiar shape, which was near their homes, and distant from
Bandenra about ten miles. Here at the head of a ravine around which the road
ran they were ambushed bv five Indians who were on foot, and likely, saw the
white men when they came through the pass. The Indians were not more than
thirty feet from the two settlers when thev showed themselves and drew their
arrows back to shoot. Mr.Cryer saw the Indians,just as they were in the act
of shooting, and hit the horses a sharp blow, which caused them to spring
forward quickly, and at the same time the arrows came, one of which struck
Cryer in the small of the back and he fell from the seat backward into the
wagonbed. Foster was not hit, and at once took the lines and whipped the team
into a fast run, followed by the Indians, who commenced yelling and still
continued to shoot arrows. There was a gun in the wagon which Foster now
secured and aimed back at his pursuers, but they sprang to one side and he
would not fire for fear of a miss,
M. C. CLICK. 509
and waited for a better chance. During this flight over a rocky road the
wagonbed jolted up over a wheel, and the horses, not being able to run with
it in that condition, began to slacken their speed. Although it was a most
critical time, Foster stopped them, and getting out with great effort, lifted
the bed back in place and then resumed his
flight. The wounded man suffered untold agony during the wild ride, bouncing
from one side to the other in the wagon with the arrow still in his body. It
was not more than two miles home, and at the rate of speed the horses were
forced into they soon arrived there. The Indians had long since abandoned
the chase and went back. There was no doctor near to attend Mr. Cryer and he
suffered great pain, as the arrow was deeply imbedded and could not be
withdrawn by ordinary force or means. A man at Bandera named 0. B. Miles had
been a hospital steward and generally attended men who were shot by Indians
or any other way, and he was at once sent for and came, but Cryer had
received a mortal wound and died in three days. Miles did all he could for
him, extracted the arrow and dressed the wound, but of no avail. Three or
four men went back to the place of the ambuscade, but could see nothing of
the Indians. Many arrows were picked up along the road.
The writer drove around the foot of Sugar Loaf Mountain, inspecting it, and
indeed it is of peculiar shape and location, rising abruptly and alone out of
the valley and towering high in a conical shape, and being almost perfect in
symmetrical formation, except near the base, where it terminates in rough
spurs and small gullies. The place of the ambush was also visited. The road
is the same as at that time, coming round in a curve as it crosses the ravine
near its head. There is a fall here of about six feet, over which the water
pours during a freshet, but dry at other times. It is all solid rock, and
the action of the water in time has scooped out a basin underneath in which a
dozen men could secrete themselves and not be seen by any one traveling the
road unless they stepped out into view. In the few moments the writer spent
here recalling and pondering over this sad frontier tragedy and gazing down
on the very spot where the savages stood and sent the fatal shaft into Cryer,
he could almost, it seemed, see their upturned, painted faces, and hear the
twang of the bowstrings as with brawny and sinewy arms they drew the
510 TEXAS INDIAN FIGHTERS.
arrows almost to the head and let them fly on their mission of death to a
pioneer.
In the fall of 1866 Thomas B. Click, brother to M. C.,was killed by Indians
on the Medina River. He lived in Bandera, and was on his way up the river to
see a man named Huffmann, who lived six miles west of town, and who was going
to move away. Mr.Click started in the early part of the night and was riding
a mule. When arriving at a point three miles from town at the fork of the
road the Indians attacked him. He had no gun, and it was supposed from the
sign that he turned and attempted to make to the Medina River, 300 yards
away. An Indian on a big horse (from the tracks) cut him off from there and
turned him back to the road, where he was killed by a lance thrust, done
evidently by the Indian, who ran a-round him, as the mule and horse track
indicated they were close together. The slain man fell in the road, but the
Indians dragged him out and left the body about fifteen steps away. Mr.
Click had on a fine pair of buckskin breeches, which the Indians stripped him
of and carried away with them. Next morning M. C. Click and D. A. Weaver
started to Bandera, from about where Medina City is now, to attend to some
business, and came upon the spot where the unfortunate man lost his life the
night before. Mr. Click saw his brother's blood in the road, and stopping
his horse said to Weaver, "Some one has killed a maverick here." About that
time, however, his eyes rested on a small butcher knife in the road, and he
dismounted and picked it up, recognizing it as be-longing to his brother. I
This discovery made him feel uneasy, and a short search, for the grass was
high, revealed the body by following the trail where it had been dragged.
Officers in town were notified and an inquest held over the body, after which
it was taken back and buried in the cemetery at Bandera. A party took the
trail of the Indians, but they scattered and nothing could be done with them.
The Indians also got the mule and saddle.
In 1867 Rufus Click, another brother, while coming from Kerrville to Bandera,
was ambushed by Indians at the Bandera Pass. He had a dog with him, and when
they got into the pass the dog raised his hair and got behind Mr. Click.
This looked suspicious, but being on a fast horse he rode on, and was soon
fired on both with bullets and arrows. The frontiersman leaned for-
H. C CLICK. 511
ward on the horse's neck and the race for life commenced. There were two
parties of the Indians, some on both sides of the road, and he had to run the
ganntlet between them. A bullet hit his mare in the neck above the windpipe,
and an arrow struck him below the shoulder blade and ranged up as he was
leaning forward. The speed of his nag saved him, and he made it to the ranch
of Mr. John A. Jones, three miles distant. He had to be assisted into the
house, and a negro was sent to Bandera after Dr. Fitz Gibbon. He came and
said Mr. Click was shot with a poisoned arrow, and he would have to give
strychnine to coun-teract it, as it was the only chance to save him. He got
well, but was never stout again. The poison was that of a rattlesnake. The
Indians afterwards made a raid and stole the mare that Mr. Click rode that
day and killed her below Bandera, stretched her hide on the ground and cut
lariats out of it, commencing in the center.
In the winter of 1875 Jack Phillips, who lived six miles above Bandera on
Winin's Creek, started to Sabinal Canyon on business for his brother-in-law,
Buck Hamilton, who was sheriff of Bandera County. There was no wagon road
over the mountains then to the canyon after leaving the settlement in Hondo
Canyon, only a horse trail from there on. Phillips ate dinner with Mr.
Click, then living in Hondo Canyon, and then went on his way. When he
arrived at the pass which leads into Seco Canyon he was attacked and killed
by Indians. This trail was above where the main road now runs. Mr. F. L.
Hicks had made a pasture fence across the trail, and in lieu of a gate had
common draw bars through which to pass. Phillips got through this and the
Indians came down a point to the right and made their attack upon him. He
ran back the way he came and succeeded in getting through the bars again, but
was closely pursued. It was a long chase of half a mile, the Indians firing,
and the horse was finally shot through the shoulder with a ball and fell into
a ravine. The doomed man now took down the ravine on foot, but was soon
overtaken and killed. If he made any fight with them it could not be told.
At this time Mr. William Felts and Miss Josephine E. Durban were on their way
from Sabinal Canyon to Bandera to get married, and came upon the body shortly
after the Indians left. Thev first saw the horse, which was lying in sight
of the trail,
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and went to him. Here they discovered the tracks of Phillips, where he ran
down the ravine, and following these about fifty yards came to him lying face
downward. They now hurried to the ranch of Mr. Click, told him the news, and
stayed at his house that night. Next morning Click, Weaver and others went
after the body, and Felts and Miss Durban went on to Bandera and carried the
news over there. When Mr. Click and his party arrived at the scene of the
killing the horse was still alive but unable to get up, and was shot by Dave
Weaver. The body of Phillips lay face downward, stripped and mutilated. The
Indians took the saddle off the horse and carried it away. The body was
brought to Joel Casey's, the nearest Hondo settler, but off the main road,
and Mr. Click went to Bandera that night and had a coffin made. Mr.
Phillips was a Mason and was buried by them at Bandera. Mr. Click is also a
Mason of long standing.
The Indians were followed by Hondo men. but not overtaken. The shoes of
Phillips were found on the trail. A scout of Texas rangers was on the trail
of these same Indians, but their horses gave out and they were just turning
back on Wallace Creek fifteen miles away north, at the time the Indians were
killing Jack Phillips, as it was afterwards learned. Dr. J. C. Nowlin, of
the Guadalupe valley, was with the rangers on this occasion, and said they
followed the Indians from North Llano, about where Junction City is now.
Mr. Click was a Confederate soldier, and was in many battles during the
Civil war.
Found this while "surfing" the Ancestry.com web site today. It is in a GEDCOM
file by the name of "g6108a". I have the file if anyone would like to look it
over just write me <wmcalli129(a)aol.com> and I will be glad to send it to you
as a attachment.
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Descendants of Richard Y. Merchant
1 Richard Y. Merchant 1807 - 1858
+Prudence Waldrip 1808 - 1860
...2 Elizabeth A. Merchant 1829 -
+William M. Click
...2 Catherine Merchant 1834 -
+George W. Weldon
...2 Mary Merchant 1835 -
...2 Nancy Elizabeth Merchant 1838 -+Dempsey Chism Lightsey
...2 Lelitha Merchant 1840 - 1860
...2 Jenira Merchant 1842 -
...2 William Marceflus Merchant 1843 - 1885
+Lucinda Carolyn Nelson 1841 - 1927
..........3 William Marcellus Merchant, Jr 1865 - 1950
.............+ Jemie Anderson
..........3 Johmie Merchant 1866 -
..........3 Joseph C. Merchant 1868 - 1929
.............+ Sarah Elizabeth Crain
...........3 James Bobbie Merchant 1869 - 1899
.............+ Mary Comelius
...........3 Mary Catherine Merchant 1870 - 1950
.............+ Drury Lacy Fore, Jr
...........3 Jobeious Bunyan Merchant 1872 - 1945
.............+ Maggie May Cox 1879 -
...........3 Sam N. Dock Merchant 1876 - 1950
...........3 Zip T. Merchant 1878 - 1917
.............+ Alice Virginia NWtten 1881 - 1963
...........3 Kirk Merchant 1879 - 1936
.............+ Viola Landers 1888 -
...........3 Elizabeth Eudora Merchant 1881 - 1966
.............+Charles W. Neimeyer 1877 -
...........3 Green Merchant 1883 - 1885
...........3 Tintie Lucy Merchant 1883 - 1964
.............+ Charles Henry Cornelius
...2 James Merchant 1845 -
...2 Wesley Merchant 1847 -
...2 Miles Merchant 1849 -
Found this on the USGENWEB State Search Site at this address
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm
1870 CENSUS - ATASCOSA COUNTY, TEXAS
Precinct No 2 Post Office Somerset 28 Jun 1870
157 157 Click, James 42 m w Farmer AL
Saphronia C. 33 f w Keeping House AL
Rufus 12 m w At Home AR
James W. 7 m w TX
Algenora 6 f w TX
William 3 m w TX
Weavers
Posted by Judson L. Pope <JLPCHTN(a)juno.com> on Thu, 06 Apr 2000, in response
to Corporal R.H. Weaver CSA 1845-1891 buried Shelby Co., TN, posted by Joy Q.
Gallagher on Wed, 05 Apr 2000
Surname: Weaver, Pope, Click, Foutch
I have a Frederick Weaver1828-1875, who married a Ruth Click 1832-1902, and
had 11 children,Lizabeth, Amanda 1852-1927 (my line) Rachel, Louis, Mary,
Issac, Harriett, Nancy, Susie, Woodlie, And Ollie. If this will help you in
your search and if you find a connection to these names, contact me at once
at the email address above. Amanda Jane Weaver married John Iva Pope(my
great-grandfather) Amanda Jane Weaver was from Knoxville, TN, by oral
knowledge from my father. this is all the info I have.
http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/wea/Weaver?read=97
I'm not sure which CLICK he is but he seems to be in the area where M.C.
CLICK, son of Mathias B. Cleek and Nancy Moss Cleek, lived.
>From the books "Territorial Papers - Arkansas Territory 1825-29" pages 68-76
ROSTER OF MILITIA OFFICERS
[lc: Arkansas Gazette, June 14, 1825]
First Name/Surname Rank Regiment County Comm. Date
M. Click 1st Lieut. Fifth Hempstead 1820 Oct 20
Children of Mathias B. Cleek and Nancy Moss Cleek:
1. William M. Click b.1820
+1. Elizabeth ? +2.Nannie ?
2. John M. Click b.1822
+Sarah E. ?
3. James Click b.1827
+Sophronia
4. Rufus Click b.1831
5. Marcellus Click b.1833
+Nancy Jane WEAVER