On April 19, 1881, Catherine "Kate" Ringer McLaurin, sometimes McLauren, was with her three small children and fourteen-year-old Allen Lease in the garden when a band of Lipan Apaches began plundering her home. Lease, thinking there were pigs in the house, went to investigate the noise and was shot and killed. Catherine was also shot and died hours later, but her children were unharmed. Her six-year-old daughter Maud went for help because her father, John McLaurin, was away. Neighbors pursued the raiders for seventy miles before soldiers from Fort Clark took command, and the soldiers trailed the party into Mexico, reportedly killing all but two.