Ann Whitney

Elizabeth (Ann) Whitney, a native of Missouri, accepted a teaching position in 1867 at the newly erected Leon River School, a rural school about seven miles north of present-day Hamilton on a rise overlooking the Warlene Valley. On a hot summer afternoon that year, Comanche Indians suddenly attacked Ann and her students there. According to local tradition, Ann was repeatedly struck by arrows fired through cracks in the schoolhouse walls, and although fatally injured, she nevertheless bravely aided the escape of all but one of her young students.

Hamilton, Texas · United States