COMANCHE COUNTY TEXAS
HISTORICAL MARKERS IN COMANCHE
COUNTY
AMITY
CEMETERY
When 14-year-old Charles
Farley died in Feb. 1878, his
parents buried him near their
farmhouse, as this frontier
locality had no cemetery at
the time.
COMANCHE COUNTY
HISTORICAL MARKER
First settled in 1854 by five families,
the county, created and organized
1856, was named for Comanche
Indians, Lords of Texas frontier, who
were losing hunting grounds to
settlers.
COMANCHE
NATIONAL BANK
The Comanche National Bank
The Comanche National Bank
was organized in December
1889 with beginning capital of
$50,000.
GENERAL
ASHBEL SMITH
Born in Connecticut.
Graduated at 19 from Yale.
Studied medicine in France,
where friends were
Revolutionary War hero
Lafayette and inventor
Samuel F.
COMANCHE
CHIEF
Army engineers laid out a
military road in this area in 1850.
By 1855 thirty to forty families
had settled in the vicinity.
Comanche County was created in
1856, and Comanche became the
second county seat in 1859.
CAPTAIN JAMES
CUNNINGHAM 1855
exas Ranger Captain James
Cunningham Born in
Alabama, settled in
Comanche County, 1855.
Commander of Texas Ranger
Company stationed in
Comanche County, 1858.
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