The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930 Page: 265
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History of Fannin County, Texas, 1836-1848
same spring the father, mother and other members of the family
left Arkansas to journey overland to the location he had selected
for their new home in the untenanted West. James, the youngest
child, died during the long trip. He was buried by his father and
brothers in a coffin hewn from a log, the lid of which was fastened
down by a passing stranger. It is said that the marks of the Dugan
wagon train were the first to be made on the site of Honey Grove
and Bonham. The Dugans settled temporarily on middle Bois
D'Arc near present-day Orangeville, but the peril of their exposed
position induced them to abandon this locality after a few weeks
and return to Rocky Ford.12 Here they remained a short while,
but returning about the middle of the summer they built a cabin
that became the nucleus of the middle Bois D'Arc settlement.
Meanwhile (May the 10th) all of the men belonging to the river
settlements had organized themselves into a militia company. Im-
mediately after the formation of this company five men under the
command of Daniel Rowlett started up the river along the south
bank on a scouting expedition. Two days later they discovered
an Indian trail leading northward toward the river. Following
this track to the banks of the Red River they found a party of
friendly Kickapoos who informed them of the defeat of the Mex-
icans at San Jacinto. They then proceeded to Shawneetown, north
of the present site of Denison, where they met a party of thirty
Shawnees. Among them Rowlett found an old acquaintance, Jim
Logan, who had been educated at the Great Crossing of the Elk-
horn, Scott County, Kentucky. Logan's father had lived with
Judge Logan, a prominent Kentuckian, and had lost his life fight-
ing on the American side in the War of 1812. Jim Logan had a
flute that had been presented to him by Richard M. Johnston-nor
was he averse to playing a few of his favorite tunes for his white
friends.
After this pleasant diversion the scouts turned southward and
proceeded toward the headwaters of the Trinity where they fell in
with a party of Caddoes who were traveling northward. The
scouts requested the Indians to refrain from visiting the Red
River area until they were given permission to do so by the whites.
This without protest they agreed to do. This contact with the
Caddoes probably occurred somewhere southeast of the present site
2Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 381-382.265
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