Captain Jack J. Cureton
My GG Uncle, by Don Stringer
Captain Jack Cureton was b in AR 1826. At the age of 20 he went with Governor Yale to the Mexican War in 1846. Colonel Yale was killed at the Battle Of Buena Vista. Captain J.J. Cureton married Eliza Price in 1847 at Ozark, AR. They moved to TX in the winter of 1854. In 1855 settled in Keechie, Palo Pinto, Co. and built one of the first log cabins in the then unorganized country. He was a Captain of the Texas Rangers and helped organize the country in 1857. He commanded the 95th volunteer Texans in Dec 1860, on the Pease River when Peta Nocoma, Quanta Parker’s father and chief of the Comanche was killed and took Cynthia Ann Parker and a baby girl from the Comanche and took her back to her people. He took oath to support the Southern Confederacy Mar 15, 1861 and served during the Civil War with the Frontier Regiment whose headquarters were at old Fort Belknap. He fought with the Texans in the Baylor War that ran the Indians out of Texas to Fort Sill just before the Civil War. Drove cattle herds from Bosque Co. TX. to Camp Cade CA. through hostile territory in 1852 and 1870. He died on his farm in Bosque Co. May 12, 1881 after serving Bosque Co. for four years as sheriff. He left a widow who died in 1906 and six children. He was buried on the family ranch. The Flat Top Ranch, Walnut Springs, Bosque Co. TX.