The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1927 Page: 3 of 8
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THK BASTROP ADVERTISER, BASiKOP, TF.XAS, riH'RSDAY. JUNE 16, 1927
Josiah Wilbarger Was Saved By a Vision
Miss Fenora Chambers Recounts A Famous
Bit of Texas History In Which The Hand
0f God Was Seen.
BV NATHE P. BACiBY.
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While n n,niur' n With th" Sr,iriU
, the dead urn! belief Ureunw are
lv triven little or on credence
there i« only reiably vouched
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, ,, IV has only a nupernatural
Juuton. A m n badly ,,u dad
! I .,• !,-d by U„ IndlMi. «
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•bis .•si*1''1
(fied in a disiunt State u
ffW hour.- before her brother was
valued. shl' appeared to him in a
r<ion and promised s,,n<1 «'.
DurmvC that ni«rht a woman a few
away hid a dream three Lines-
that recited in a relief expedition*
Miit out to rescue the man at.
davlitfht. The dream wu.s presum-
ibiy brought about by the dead b.b-
Ut'> Kpiri'- , .
The man who saw the vision was
joiiah l'ugh Wilbarger, an early
settler in Texas while it was a part
of the Republic of Mexico. Miss
tenon ChainUTs, 4827 Gaston ave-
nue, ha: heard the uniu-ual story
many times told from her mother,
Mr- Ma'vraret Chambers whos- first
husband *** Josiah Wilbarger. Mr.
Wilbarger lived eleven years after
he \va scalped, but hTs scalp never
fully healed and finally caused hi*
death.
-My mother an(| Mi. Wilbarger
were married in Lincoln County, Mis-
,jri, in September 1*27, and immip-
rated to I« "n their wedding
♦rip." Miss Chambers said. "Mr.
Wilbarger and some other men in
August, ls:i.'5 were engaged in some
surveying for (jen. 1. «)• t hamL>ei -,
a few miles lu'low Austin. Mr. and
Mrs. W ilbarger lived on Barton's
Prairie, about twenty-five miles
down the Colorado River trom Aus-
tin. Mr. Wilbarger aiuf hu~ survey,
.ni: party had spent the night at the
h>.nu of Mr. and Mrs. Ifcuben Horns-
by at Hornaby's Bend, twelve miles
below Austin.. Next morning they
rnje horseback up the river to where
they were surveying.
"In the party besides Mr. \\ ilbar-
Ktr were four other men. Two <>1
them, Mr. Christian and Mr. Strotb-
er, were settlers in Austin's Colony
and th< other men, Haynie and
Standifcr, had recentiy comt to Tex-
* from Missouri, expecting to settle
here, and were assisting Mr Wilbar-
ger in the surveying work and pros-
!*'<ting for themselves.
"At noon they stopped near Pecan
Springs about four miles east of Aus-
tin to eat their lunch. They staked
their horses near-by and were eat-
when they were suddenly attack-
by a band of Indians. Mr. Chris-
tian fell mortally wounded from the
first volley from the Indians. The
otherv returned the fin- as they ran
fur their horses. Mr. Wilbarger, not
knowing that. Mr. Christian was mor-
tally wounded, went to his assfatance
and tried to help him to his horse.
Two of the horses, frightened by the
tudden attiu k, hud broken their
ropes and run away, while the other
ti..ee mi!r. escaped on the other three
horses.
Shot Through the Neck
"Wilbarger assisted < hristiun to
shelter behind a tree and continued
the battle with the Indians, but a
moment later his neck was pierced
by an arrow shot from behind, and
he fell, paralyzed. The uthei thro-
men, believing their tv., comrades
were dead, guvt uc the fight and
fled, leaving the Indians siu ii utnfing
the bodio o " <"hi' tiim and Wilbar-
ger.
Wilbarger Scalped Alive
'The Indians kille.i Christian by
cutting hi throat ,and s«alping him.
Seeing tho arrow sticking in tho
back of Wilbarger* ne< with the
point protruding uiuiei bis chin,
the Indians oelievec' be was (load, but
began to l«el the sculp from his
bead. Wilbarger told my* mother
afterward that he '.as not even un-
coneio'.is, hut. was aware of every-
thing that \\;i taking place.
How Indians Scalp Victims
"Most pei soil' when thinking of
Indians s alping people, believe
they tear off the whole scalp; hut
those Indians rut off pieces of scalp
about the size of a dollar. They took
seven pieces of scalp from the head
of Mr. Wilbarger 11• said, every
time they cut. and tore a piece off
his scalp it souncfed like the | -aling
of loud thunder, hut it pained him
very little, he was punalyzed and
numbed by the arrow in hi* neck. The
Indians stripped most of the clothes
off iht bodies it tin two white men
niid left them for dead
Soreh Wounded and \lone
"M. Wilbarger soon lost con-
sciousness but came to again about
the middle of the afternoon. The
bleed was still oozing from his
scalp and he wii covered with clot-
ted blood. He managed to extricate
the uivow from his neck. From the
great loss i l blood he was famished
with thirst and very wenk, but be be-
gan to crawl toward a near-by
stream, ii, finally reached it, drank
and lay down in the water to soothe
the fe\ei which had set in. lie lay |
in the water a long tune and became
t-hi 1 let.' and weak that only with a
supreme effort was he able to get
onto the bank. He then went to sleep
from exhausti< n and awakened neur
nightfall.
Sister Appears in a Vision
"By this time the flies were
swarming al*>ut the wound on his
bead and laving eggs in the wounds.
Mr. Wilbarger wa much alarmed
and (Ucided that he would try to
crawl to the llornsby place, eight
miles away. He managed to drug
himself about half a mile to Walnut
Spring.-, but so exhausted that he
ould ge n<i farther. He sat down
large tree and there had
Miss Fenora Chamben- of Dalian,
Wilbarger, the man who hud a vision
wnose mother was the wife of Josiah
that is famous.
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briH^ who came from
«' "f .lonah Pugh Wilbarger, are
..... ",K''n seventy-two years years
H("'Ped by Indians in lM.'t and
* " " ^'rv Reuben H rnsby riea
* r'igbt that Wilbarger v.a - •: 1p
•iro KU"^' us S,H' l,,'"d '
on avenue, and her mother, Mrs.
.,11 <>uri lo I ex I in 1 as the
shown in tl '• lib ve !■ cture which
age. Mr Wilbargi wa wounded
wa •« ;ed n a "I ' P i"> "r*"'
r Austin dream. thi. • times in
d and needed aui Mi- « hampers
frv-.i her nutlur
who i!«<:
• i
hirty year?
a remarkable vision ol' ht- sister.
"The upparition said to him,
'Mrother Josiah, you are too weak to
go uny farther by yourself. Stay
here and help will come before the
setting of tomorrow's sun.' She
spoke other words of comfort und
then moved away in the direction
ol the llornsby house It was six
weeks later that news was received
in Texa« thut hi* sister, Mrs. Mar-
garet Clifton, had died in St. I uis
County, Missouri, a few hours be-
fore Wilbarger was wounded and
scalped!
Wilbarger Reported Dead
"The three men who escaped re-
turned to the llornsby home and
reported that they had seen th« In-
dians kill Wilbarger and Christian
as they fled. It was decided not to
go after the bodies until the next day
a; it was feared the Indium- might
be lurking in the vicinity and they
knew they cfid not have men enough j
to cope with such u large numbei of
Indian: us hud attacked the survey-
ors.
Mrs. llornsby's Dream
"During the night, Mrs. Hop -by
had a dream thut she saw Wilbarger
wounded and bleeding and naked, it
alive, leaning against a tre< be le i
I'ecnn Springs. The dream wa so
vivid and terrible that it awoke her.
She awakened her husband and t Id
him of her vision and begged I im
to tuki the men and go after W il-
barger. Mr. llornsby a- <ured icr
that, it could lx- only a dream, -ut
when -hi would not be convinced hut
it was iii>t a true vi ion he awak' ied
the three men vvhi bad escaped ind
told tilelli about the iticidt lit. ' ey
told then i! the im dent. They iid
that it. w"ii■ not, possible that Wi' ar-
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ger could be alive. They had seen
his neck pierced by the arrow and
had seen the Indians gather around
the two men and begin cutting them
with their knivws.
(To be Continued Next Week.) ...
RATHER PERSONAL
Dad—"I'll not have this. You must
come home earlier. Why, what on
earth would a college educated girl
be doing out this late in a car?"
Co-ed—"Now Daddy, don't get
nasty."
W . M. U. MEET
Circle No. 1 of the Women's Mis-
sionary Union of the Baptist Church
held its regular meeting In the home
of Mrs. J, H. Craft, Monday after-
noon, June 13. Tin members an-
swered the roll call, one new mem-
ber, Mr Krykendal joined; and one
visitor. Miss Celile Ash, was welcome.
After the devotional* and short
business session a most interesting
Bible Study class was conducted by
the leader, Mtv. Tribble. Mrs, Lockett
guv* a paper oil the life of John the
Kaptist Mr- Tribble described
(inlulee and the condition of the peo-
ple at the time of Christ. Mrs.
Uranium gave the lives of ,Tamos and
John, sof of Zelx dee.
All members are urged to be pres-
< nt at our next meeting, Monday
afternoon, June in the home of
Mrs. Lockc't to tudy the Syro-
I'hoenician Woman and also of the
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Schaefer, H. A. The Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1927, newspaper, June 16, 1927; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth206541/m1/3/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bastrop Public Library.