War in East Texas
War in East Texas

Author: Bill O'Neal

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2018-07-15

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1574417398

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From 1840 through 1844 East Texas was wracked by murderous violence between Regulator and Moderator factions. More than thirty men were killed in assassinations, lynchings, ambushes, street fights, and pitched battles. The sheriff of Harrison County was murdered, and so was the founder of Marshall, as well as a former district judge. Senator Robert Potter, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, was slain by Regulators near his Caddo Lake home. Courts ceased to operate and anarchy reigned in Shelby County, Panola District, and Harrison County. Only the personal intervention of President Sam Houston and an invasion of the militia of the Republic of Texas halted the bloodletting. The Regulator-Moderator War was the first and largest—in numbers of participants and fatalities—of the many blood feuds of Texas, and Bill O'Neal's book is the first detailed account of this feud. He has included numerous photographs, maps to help the reader to identify various locations of specific events, and rosters of names of the Regulator and Moderator factions arranged by the counties in which the individuals were associated—along with a roster of the victims of the war.

Regulator-Moderator War of East Texas
Regulator-Moderator War of East Texas

Author: Edward Hancock, II

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-12-04

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Beginning in 1839, East Texas was threatened by intimidation and violence between two factions known as Regulators and Moderators. Over the next several years, the conflict would take untold lives, destroy homes, uproot families and reach at least four different counties and an area known as "Neutral Territory", resulting in bushwhacking, lynching and shootouts. Events would come to a head with the intervention of President Sam Houston, but revenge remained in the hearts of many. From the outbreak of hostilities to the wedding that turned deadly, the lives of five men would connect in ways they could never imagine, resulting in innumerable descendants and cousins, yet to be born. As old rivalries die away, children and grandchildren of former enemies begin to marry. The Regulator-Moderator War, much like the American Civil War that followed it, was personal. To the descendants and cousins of five men, it forever remains a pivotal chapter in "the story of us".

The Johnson-Sims Feud
The Johnson-Sims Feud

Author: Bill O'Neal

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1574412906

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The Johnson & Sims families were pioneer ranchers, settling in the same region--Lampasas & Burnet counties--in the dangerous years before the Civil War. After the War, Billy & Nannie Johnson & Dave & Laura Sims establish large ranches in adjoining counties in West Texas. At the turn of the century the two families united in a marriage of 14-year-old Gladys Johnson & 21-year-old Ed Sims. Several years later a nasty divorce ensued due in part to Gladys willfulness & Ed's drinking. More trouble followed over custody of their two children & Gladys took matters into her own hands.....