The Muncey Massacre Traditional Cache
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Here you get a Texas History lesson about Indians living near Collin county, a historical marker, a cache and a walk in nicely groomed woods. Parking coords: N33 04.017, W096 41.087 unless you want to up the terrain rating.
THE MUNCEY MASSACRE
COLLIN COUNTY'S LAST FATAL INDIAN RAID BURIAL SITE
In 1840 and 1842, Texas pioneers McBain Jameson and Jeremiah Muncey settled near this site. They were part of the post-Texas Revolution wave of settlers. As with much of the West during that era, Texas was a wild and often savage place. While hunting in late 1844, two other local settlers,
Leonard Searcy and William Rice came to the Muncey hut. They found the brutally massacred bodies of Jameson, Muncey, Mrs. Muncey and their small child. Recognizing the obvious signs of an Indian raid, Searcy and Rice hurriedly left to find their own sons, who were hunting in the area. Searcy's son was safe, but Rice's son had been massacred. The victims are buried at this site. Along with the deaths of the Munceys, two other Muncey boys disappeared, presumed stolen, and
were never found. Although Indian raids continued well into the late 1800's, and were fought by Texas Rangers, the Muncey Massacre was the last Indian raid in Collin County.
The Texas Historical Commission permanently recognized this site in 1974.The Collin County Historical Association
The marker donated by Wm. Stephen Chambless, M. D., 1999
Indians Living in Collin County, Texas
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 MASSACRES
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 breath 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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