forwarding message from non-subscriber - as a reminder, please do not send replies about this query to me as I know nothing more about this query....make replies to mailto:GWJCAL@aol.com - thanks...your listsponsor GWJCAL@aol.com wrote: > > I'm looking for information about Marcellus C. "Marsh" Click. We thought it > possible he died in Oregon ca 1925 because some of his children were living > there. But a pretty exhaustive search has failed to find any record of his > death in OR. > > We really don't know what happened to him. He was considered an "Indian > Fighter" in Texas, ca 1865-70. But in the things I've read he never claimed > to have fired a shot. > > He found a few people who had been killed by Indians but what Marsh Click did > to become well-known was live long enough to be a quoted source for writers > who were recording the early history of Bandara Co. TX. He died sometime in > the 1920s. He was in his 90's then. If he ever killed anybody he was to > modest to mention it. > > However, it is likely that he did some shooting himself. He and his father- > in-law., David Adam WEAVER, found Marsh's brother Tom CLICK after Indians > killed him. Tom was unarmed and riding a mule just a few miles out of > Bandara. Apparently he put up some resistance with his knife after the mule > was killed. > > That was just after the Civil War. Marsh and Weaver took Tom back to Bandara > and buried him. Then they tried without luck to find Tom's killers. > > On another occasion, Marsh and David Adam WEAVER found the body of another > person who had been killed by Indians the night before. A horse was still > alive with a lance in it. Since the horse was unable to stand and was dying > David A. Weaver shot it. > > In the Marsh CLICK -- David Adam WEAVER stories I've read that is the only > mention of either man firing a shot. But I think modesty might account for > some of that and the practice of killing unarmed people might explain some > more. > > Marsh disappears from records about 1928, at about age 95. He is probably > buried in an unmarked grave in Bandara, Rio Frio, or Leaky, TX. However, > since train travel was easy by the time he died there is some possibility he > died and is buried in Klamath Co., OR. > > If anybody knows where Marsh CLICK died or where he is buried please let me > know. > > Thanks, > > Grant W. Johnston, Chico, CA > MIDDLETON -L coordinator