Leander Texas
As told by the Rockport Press:
Dolly’s account was written by a Dr. Benjamin Dolbeare and entitled A Narrative of the Capacity and Suffering of Dolly Webster Among the Comanche Indians in Texas with an account of the massacre of John Webster and his party, as related by Mrs. Webster.
Excerpt from the book as told by Dolly:
According to Dolly’s account in Dolbeare’s book, she and her daughter Martha Virginia reached San Antonio after about 15 days on the run on March 30, 1840. Pages 31-33 of the account provide the timeline. “Next day which was the 28th of March, I anticipated from a remarkable dream I had that night and the night before, that something extraordinary was about to occur…” (page 31). The next time marker: “I arose the next morning about sunrise [March 29th], famished and exhausted with hunger and fatigue…” (page 31). In her hungry, fatigued, and dehydrated state, Mrs. Webster thinks she sees a house in the distance so she pursued that direction “until about 10’oclock when she became so exhausted,…” realized she was seeing things, found the shade of a live oak tree and fell asleep for three to four hours (page 32). She wakes up refreshed from her sleep, continues her journey, comes across a wagon road and couldn’t determine which way she needed to go to get to the nearest settlement. “But this situation was somewhat embarrassing, as it was difficult to decide which way to go to obtain the nearest settlement-having my eye on this strange appearance which I discovered in the morning [March 30th], I concluded to pursue that course, as the more I looked at it the more it resembled a house, I therefore resolved on traveling-that direction which I did, and pursuing more than two miles, I heard a gun, which drew my attention to the spot, and behold there stood the city of San Antonio…”
