- The veteran soldier (John York) was chosen to lead his neighbors, including Robert Justus Klebergqv, in a retaliatory campaign against Indians in October 1848. York and his son-in-law, John Madison Bell, were among those killed on October 11 on Escondida Creek in a battle that generated much notorious publicity. York was buried eight miles east of Yorktown in the same grave with Bell. The state erected a marker at the gravesite in 1936.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: J. H. Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 6?7 (January, April, July 1903). Nellie Murphree, A History of DeWitt County (Victoria, Texas, 1962).
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