Site of Harvey Massacre
SH 6, Calvert, TX, USA
Texas, USA
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Site of Harvey Massacre.
The Texas Historical Commission Atlas records this marker as in situ at the listed location. It remains part of the state marker inventory; the placement description and coordinates in this row follow the current official Atlas record and should be field-verified before publication.
About Site of Harvey Massacre
In November 1836, an Indian raiding party attacked the Harvey family at this site, killing John Harvey, his wife, and their son. Their five-year-old daughter Ann and a servant girl were taken captive and sold into slavery in Mexico, where Ann remained four years before being recovered by relatives. The episode reflected frontier violence faced by early Texas settlers.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Site of Harvey Massacre
(one mile west) At this site one Sunday night in November 1836, the family of John Harvey was attacked by an Indian raiding party. Harvey, his wife, and son were all killed, Mrs. Harvey's blood staining the open pages of the family Bible. Their daughter Ann, aged 5, and a servant girl were taken captive, later to be sold as slaves. The price of Ann was a few blankets. After four years in Mexico, Ann was recovered by her uncle, James Talbot of Alabama. In 1848 she wed Sanders Briggs and in 1853 they moved to Texas, where they built a home -- ironically -- near the site of the massacre. (1972) Source: https://atlas.thc.texas.gov/Details/5395010918
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