Details for Catherine McLauren
Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5385000760
Data
| Marker Number | 760 |
| Atlas Number | 5385000760 |
| Marker Title | Catherine McLauren |
| Index Entry | McLauren, Catherine |
| Address | Leakey Floral Cemetery |
| City | Leakey |
| County | Real |
| UTM Zone | 14 |
| UTM Easting | 426225 |
| UTM Northing | 3288352 |
| Subject Codes | women, women's history topics; Native Americans |
| Marker Year | 1971 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark | No |
| Marker Location | located in southwest corner of Leakey Floral Cemetery; Leakey |
| Private Property | No |
| Marker Condition | In Situ |
| Marker Size | grave marker |
| Marker Text | A victim of the last Indian raid in Frio Canyon, April 19, 1881. Mother of three small children, "Kate" McLauren was home with them and a neighbor boy, Allen Lease, when a Lipan Apache band started to plunder their house. Although shot with a bullet, she sent her six-year-old child, Maud, for help, but died shortly after her husband John's return that night. When the cemetery in Leakey was established, she and Lease were the first burials. Recorded 1971 |