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The Establishment of Comanche Justin Fraley The city of Comanche was established in 1858. John Duncan offered 240 acres of land that was situated on Indian Creek. This location was near the center of the county and would be a good site for a county seat. The offer was accepted by the commissioner's court. Ransom Tuggle was authorized to lay out the town site, which he did. Mr. T. J. Neighbors built the first house in the city of Comanche. The first county seat for Comanche County was located at Cora which served in that capacity from 1856-1859, when it was made from Cora to Comanche. The courthouse building at Cora was first moved to a beautiful spot overlooking Lake Eanes. Later it was moved to the Burks Museum north of Comanche. It can now be seen on the courthouse square. |
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In 1857, a farmer by the name of Ed Foreman lived in Comanche County on the North Leon River bottom six miles from Cora. He came into town one evening to get some coffee. When he was on his way home afoot, he was attacked by a storm of Indians, killed and scalped. From the horse tracks it is believed that there were about 15 in a bunch. He saw the Indians coming at full speed on horses and being afoot he decided to run for the thicket. Before he got there, he was shot so many times by arrows that he fell dead. His body was found the next day. Every man that could leave his home went on the search party. They trailed Foreman by his own blood for a quarter of a mile before they found him dead. |
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The first recorded white men in Comanche County was the army engineers who laid out the military road from Fort Gates to the Leon River fifteen miles southeast to what now is the town of Gatesville. This was in 1850. This road came up the divide between Lampasas and the Leon River. |
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In Hamilton's old graves Gentry cemetery stands a monument of Ann Whitney Hamilton county teacher, who was murdered by Indians in the worst early day tragedy of the county's history. She was born in Massachusetts about 1835, killed by the Comanche Indians, July 9,1867. She taught a number of children in a small log school house with a door at one end and a window at the other. |
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