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a. Note:   Matilda has been written in the history books because she was stolen from her home and family by the Comanche Indians when she was thirteen. She and the Putnam children were collecting pecans in the fall of 1828, when they were stolen by Indians. History tells of Matilda's father, Andrew Lockhart of DeWitt County, Texas going into the hills of San Saba to search for his daughter. In the spring of 1839, she was returned. She died, of a cold related disease, about three years after her return.
 THE NEW HANDBOOK OF TEXAS, vol. 4, pp. 256-257, "Under the terms of a treaty, sixty-five Indians led by chieftain Muguara, delivered Matilda to authorities in San Antonio on March 19, 1840."
 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IN TEXAS, by J.W. Wilbarger, pp. 1-7, "MATILDA LOCKHART-THE PUTNAM CHILDREN," recounts the story of Matilda's capture and release.
 INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS, by John Henry Brown, pp. 74-75, under the subtitle Moore's Defeat on the San Saba, 1839- "Among this little troup of whites was Mr. Andrew Lockhart of the Guadalupe, impelled by an agonizing desire to rescue his beautiful little daughter, Matilda, who had been captured with the four Putnam children near his home. Her final recovery, at the time of the Council House fight in San Antonio, on the 19th of March, 1840."
 pp. 51-57- THE CAPTIVITY OF THE PUTNAM AND LOCKHART CHILDREN IN 1838 recounts in detail the capture and release of these children. Her story has been told on the HISTORY CHANNEL, "The Comanche Warriors".


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