MATILDA JANE (JONES) FRIEND
MATILDA, twenty years old and expecting her first child, lived with her husband, JOHN S. FRIEND and his two children, of which on was LEE TIEMPLE FRIEND, in a log house by DANCER SPRING in LEGION VALLEY, LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS.
The FRIEND'S had lived in the house only a month when, February 5, 1868, Comanche Indians attacked the Friend home while John was away, murdering women and children, and taking captive John's little boy and a little girl.
MATILDA, carrying a full term baby, was shot three times with arrows, scalped, her hand severely cut, and left for dead by the savage Indians. Determined to survived the ordeal and save her unborn baby, Matilda crawled a mile and a half through snow to a neighbor's house for help and survived the massacre.
> By Betty Jane Marglon Henning
MATILDA, twenty years old and expecting her first child, lived with her husband, JOHN S. FRIEND and his two children, of which on was LEE TIEMPLE FRIEND, in a log house by DANCER SPRING in LEGION VALLEY, LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS.
The FRIEND'S had lived in the house only a month when, February 5, 1868, Comanche Indians attacked the Friend home while John was away, murdering women and children, and taking captive John's little boy and a little girl.
MATILDA, carrying a full term baby, was shot three times with arrows, scalped, her hand severely cut, and left for dead by the savage Indians. Determined to survived the ordeal and save her unborn baby, Matilda crawled a mile and a half through snow to a neighbor's house for help and survived the massacre.
> By Betty Jane Marglon Henning
MATILDA JANE (JONES) FRIEND
MATILDA, twenty years old and expecting her first child, lived with her husband, JOHN S. FRIEND and his two children, of which on was LEE TIEMPLE FRIEND, in a log house by DANCER SPRING in LEGION VALLEY, LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS.
The FRIEND'S had lived in the house only a month when, February 5, 1868, Comanche Indians attacked the Friend home while John was away, murdering women and children, and taking captive John's little boy and a little girl.
MATILDA, carrying a full term baby, was shot three times with arrows, scalped, her hand severely cut, and left for dead by the savage Indians. Determined to survived the ordeal and save her unborn baby, Matilda crawled a mile and a half through snow to a neighbor's house for help and survived the massacre.
> By Betty Jane Marglon Henning
MATILDA, twenty years old and expecting her first child, lived with her husband, JOHN S. FRIEND and his two children, of which on was LEE TIEMPLE FRIEND, in a log house by DANCER SPRING in LEGION VALLEY, LLANO COUNTY, TEXAS.
The FRIEND'S had lived in the house only a month when, February 5, 1868, Comanche Indians attacked the Friend home while John was away, murdering women and children, and taking captive John's little boy and a little girl.
MATILDA, carrying a full term baby, was shot three times with arrows, scalped, her hand severely cut, and left for dead by the savage Indians. Determined to survived the ordeal and save her unborn baby, Matilda crawled a mile and a half through snow to a neighbor's house for help and survived the massacre.
> By Betty Jane Marglon Henning
