Kiowa Raid on Walnut Creek

The plaque stops at the raid and the captive's marriage. Fort Tours, summarizing researcher Doyle Marshall's book A Cry Unheard, says a Kiowa man named Hah-bay-te recovered the small girl her captor had left behind and gave her to his childless daughter. Called Ta-han (Texan), then To-goam-gat-ty, she broke horses, swam a flooded stream to save one, and went with the band to the 1867 Medicine Lodge council. She raised seven children and is buried among her adopted people at Rainy Mountain. An older account says the child was killed in camp.

What the plaque says

Kiowa Raid on Walnut Creek In April 1867 a band of about sixty Kiowa Indians, led by Chiefs Satank and Satanta, raided the home of William Hamleton on Walnut Creek. Hamleton was away when the Kiowas killed his wife, Sally, and captured two children, Lavina and Mary. Lavina was released from captivity after six months, but Mary was given to an Indian family and grew to adulthood among the Kiowas. Called To-Goam-Gat-Ty, she became an accepted tribal member and married another captive, Calisay. The site of the 1867 Kiowa Raid is now under the waters of Eagle Mountain Reservior (1.4 mi. E) (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Worth Stockyards — 15 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 16 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 16 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 17 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.

More markers nearby

• First Methodist Church of Azle — 2.4 mi
• Ash Creek Baptist Church — 2.7 mi
• Ash Creek Cemetery — 2.8 mi
• Coho and Nancy Jane Smith Farmstead Site — 3.4 mi