In This Vicinity June 24, 1841, Captain John Coffee Hays

Among the allies who rode with Hays in 1840 and 1841 was Flacco the Younger, a Lipan Apache leader born about 1818, whose father, Flacco the Elder, was principal chief of the Lipans. The younger Flacco scouted against the Comanches and against Mexican troops, and in 1842 he went with the Somervell expedition to the Rio Grande. Returning that winter with horses he had rounded up, he was murdered near San Antonio. Accounts blamed Mexican bandits or Cherokees; his own people believed white men killed him. No killer was ever caught.

What the plaque says

In this vicinity June 24, 1841, Captain John Coffee Hays and his Company of 12 Rangers assisted by thirty Mexicans under Captain Flores encountered ten Comanche Indians and killed eight and captured the other two and none of the Rangers were killed and but one wounded. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garner State Park — 16 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.
• Real County Historical Museum — 21 mi
  A small county museum in Leakey, at the head of the Frio Canyon, with a log-cabin parlor, an 1880s horse-drawn hearse, a wool and mohair shearing machine and 1910s jail cells.
• Uvalde Grand Opera House — 27 mi
  An 1891 Victorian opera house on the Uvalde square with a turret and a dragon weathervane, once owned by John Nance Garner and still staging volunteer theater upstairs.
• Briscoe-Garner Museum — 27 mi
  The Uvalde house of John Nance Garner, the vice president who made the office a power in Congress, now a free museum to him and to Governor Dolph Briscoe.

More markers nearby

• Captain William Ware — 5.9 mi
• Waresville Cemetery — 5.9 mi
• William Ware — 6.3 mi
• Utopia Baptist Church — 7.2 mi