 The inscription reads “Hanged and thrown in Spring Creek by Col. James Duff’s Confederate Regiment.” 

Kiowa raiders massacred residents of the McDonald farm in the Harper vicinity in 1864.During 1865, Gillespie County suffered a war-time crime wave, as 17 individuals were convicted of murder.In 1870, Herman Lehmann and his brother Willie were captured by Apaches, but Willie escaped within days.