Jack County, TX - Obituary - Killing of Chapman at Burton Spring


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Killing of Chapman at Burton Spring


During 1860, Chapman was on a deer stand near Burton Spring in Jack
County, alone, waiting for a deer. But the Indians came instead and
murdered young Chapman before he could escape. He was buried by the side
of the road leading to the Burton Ranch about one and a half miles from
the place he was killed.

Note:-Before writing this section. the author interviewed A. M. Lasater.
James Wood, Joe Fowler, B. L. Ham, and one or two others, who were
living in Jack County when Chapman was killed,


The following story is from the book:

The West Texas Frontier or a Descriptive History of Early Times
in Western Texas
Volume 2
by Joseph Carroll McConnell