During the winter of 1875, Jack Phillips, who lived about six miles north of Bandera, started to the Sabinal Canyon. Since he was horseback, he took a trail over the mountains. But when he reached the path leading into the Seco Canyon, Jack was attacked by Indians. Phillips ran about one-half miles before being killed. Shortly afterwards, Wm. Felps, and Miss Josephine Durban, who were on their way from the Sabinal Canyon to Bandera, to be married, came upon the body of Jack Phillips. Mr. Phillips was given a Masonic burial at Bandera, for he was a Mason. Ref.: Pioneer History of Bandera County, by J. Marvin Hunter and Texas Indian Fighters by A.J. Sowell. The above story is from the book, The West Texas Frontier, by Joseph Carroll McConnell. |
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