Historical Marker
Thomas C. and Eliza V. Felps
Historical marker location:
Johnson City vicinity, Texas
( from Johnson City take US 290 9 miles southeast; Miller Creek Cemetery is east of US 290 (about 3 miles east on US 290, US 281 intersection) marker is near front and center of cemetery.)
Marker installed: 1975
Born in Tennessee in 1836, Thomas C. Felps came to Texas in 1850 and to this area in 1856. He earned a living by freighting and joined the Blanco County Rangers during the Civil War. In 1863 he married Eliza V. White (b. 1846), a native of Ohio. In the summer of 1869, the couple lived with Eliza's parents while Thomas recovered from a fever. Her father, newly-appointed County Judge S. T. White, had gone to Blanco on July 21, 1869, when Thomas and Eliza were killed by a band of Indians on Cypress Creek. Only Eliza was scalped. The couple's orphaned children, Thomas and Caroline, were cared for by Eliza's parents.
(1975).