Muncey Massacre

Accounts of the killings disagree on the year. The plaque says the bodies were found in late 1844; the Collin County History page, which reproduces it, tells the story as fall 1843. Both give the toll: Jeremiah Muncey, his wife, a small child and McBain Jameson dead at the family's hut, a Rice boy killed while hunting, and two Muncey boys taken and never found. The plaque calls the attackers Indians, now Native Americans, and neither text names a nation. The marker was moved to this campus in 1998, and a cross over the graves was given in 1999.

What the plaque says

Muncey Massacre McBain Jameson and Jeremiah Muncey settled in this vicinity in 1840 and 1842. While hunting in late 1844, William Rice and Leonard Searcy came to Muncey's hut and found the savagely slain bodies of Jameson, Muncey, Mrs. Muncey, and a small child, and recognized signs of an Indian raid. The men sped out to their own sons, who were hunting nearby. Young Searcy was found safe, but Rice had been killed. Two Muncey boys disappeared, never to be found. Another was at Throckmorton settlement. That was the last tragic Indian raid in Collin county. (1976) Supplemental plaque added 1998: Historical marker relocated to this site in 1998. The site of the Muncey home and graves of the victims are approximately one mile northwest of this site.

Where it stands

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