Billy TYler, Ike Shadler & "Shorty" Shadler - Adobe Walls - Hutchinson County, TX
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YoSam.
N 35° 53.608 W 101° 09.725
14S E 304860 N 3974292
Caught napping...and the dog got scalped?
Waymark Code: WMZ317
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/03/2018
Views: 1
County of cemetery: Hutchinson County
Location of cemetery: FM 23, inside Turkey Track Ranch, Adobe Wall Battlefield
Text on Tombstone:
Billy Tyler - Ike Shadler - "Shorty" Shadler
Killed by Indians June 27, 1874
The deaths at the 2nd Battle: "The hunters suffered four fatalities, three on the first day: the two Shadler brothers asleep in a wagon failed to survive the initial onslaught, and Billy Tyler who was shot through the lungs as he entered the doorway of a building while retreating from the stockade. On the fifth day, William Olds accidentally shot himself in the head while descending a ladder at Rath's store. A search following the initial battle turned up the bodies of 15 Indian warriors killed so close to the buildings that their bodies could not be retrieved by their fellows." ~ Wikipedia
The brothers & Billy:
Bill Tyler, Ike Shadler & "Shorty" Shadler buried in a single grave near where they were scalped and killed in the second battle of Adobe Walls, June 27, 1874.
"Across the road are the graves of the Shadler brothers, buffalo hunters who were sleeping under their wagon when the Indians attacked. The Comanche killed them on the spot, then scalped their dog." ~ Texas Monthly
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