Moses William Hindes was a pioneer settler of southwest Texas. Born in South Carolina, he married Mary Jane Mason, moved in the 1840s to Alabama and then to Mississippi, and in 1855 came to Texas with his wife and six children by ox-wagon and horse-drawn hack. After a year in Lockhart, the family moved in 1856 to this sparsely settled area. Seeking adequate water for cattle raising, he tried living on Ash and San Miguel Creeks, then settled on the Frio, where in droughts wells were sunk in the river bed. During the Civil War, Hindes and his son George served as Confederate scouts while Indians plundered the area, stealing children and horses. On Aug. 1, 1865, after warning of a new Indian raid, neighbors went to the Hindes home nine miles southwest for safety, and six men took turns guarding forty horses in the corral. At daybreak, when the Indians attacked, Moses Hindes was shot to death defending his homestead. He was first buried here in Boothill and later reburied in Pleasanton Cemetery in Atascosa County. His son George, the eldest, founded the town of Hindes in Atascosa County, the Hindes and Beever Store in Pearsall sold the first pearburner ever marketed, and every generation of the family has included men who rode with the Texas Rangers.