What Became of Alice Todd? Schoolmate Molly Winn Tells of Her Capture by Comanches near San Saba, TX 

Much obliged for this follow-up about Alice Todd. Y’know, it seems to me that for these German settlers to choose dealing with the bone-breaking hardships, privation, and Indian depredations of the skulking red murderers, well, it betokens me to wonder just how lousy was life in Germany that the homesteaders preferred taking their chances here in Comancheria?

What a rough way to live…

Evil and good manifest within every race of people.

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Poor Alice breaks your heart

Thank you again for telling our ancestors ' history and what they suffered through.

Always a great story thanks.

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14 inches of snow in that part of Texas is very unusual...Any snow at all is very unusual...

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Good video

your previous episode relayed that she was 6yo, and another telling of the story I believe stated she was 7yo. 14yo is really far off.

The Todd line. How fascinating

The Plaque for Todd Mountain shown, has Mrs Todd’s death 3 weeks after the attack. Not 5 days.🤷‍♀️

Not a biologist but I know what a woman is . Anyway we need to find a genealogist to track other children Alice’s father had or trace her fathers family Then get DNA tests . Check Native American DNa on file to see if there are matches . Check with someone that knows how things work to see how statistically possible this is . You could solve the mystery . Stands with a fist ????

Good to tell the truth since they seem to forget some of the Native Americans started the attacks.

Sad

Todd name is in my family but it came over in 1881 from England with my great grandfather and he never lived west of eastern PA

Cant listen anymore ..too sad im Texan

My great great grand parents Kirstine and Niels had just gotten married and Kirstine had just given birth to a baby that wasn't his, when they went to the US. Back then if you were poor or had been to prison they wanted to get rid of you and this was a poor family. Kirstine had 3 children out of wedlock, so they were in that bunch of people. They asked for money to pay for the cheapest tickets for them, the baby and 2 of her daughters and a son he had with another wife before her and they got the money. I know a lot about them but have no idea of what happened to them in the US except they had a new baby, my great grandma Eva in Joliet Illinois Will Co. and they left here in 1878 and came back about 1884 and it's damn annoying not being able to find anything at all. They must have lost the baby and Nils's son because they didn't come back with them unless they left their son in the US which could be. After her husband's death she remarried and he died too so she went back to the US, but this time to Utah bringing her granddaughter pretending she was her daughter. The reason why I tell this story is that yes these stories about the Indians are awful but after all these people came and stole their country and if you do that now you are in trouble so in my mind, they were not invited and thanked the Indians by killing them and stealing all their land and they are strangers in their own country. When my great great grandmother came back she married a mormon who turned out to be a violent drunk who tried to kill her several times and starved her and she couldn't even get a new pair of shoes so you could end up in a bad way by the hand of "civilized" people:)

Pure evil ..

was there any reccord of the enslaved girls name?

Horrible really horrible im Texan ..and yes all this horror was true

Mean devil s

There anything on tennessee

Sadly it`s more likely Alice Todd was killed and probably why nothing more was heard of her after being taken by the Comanches. Taking into consideration this was 160 years ago, in historic terms not ancient history.

It does snow in Texas,16in.and more, also blizzards come in the Panhandle

Miss Todd wasn't caught after as much because she was a Confederate soldier daughter

Young Alices Father remarried & started another family ? Maybe I heard the story wrong , but , what stopped him from devoting his remaining life to finding his little girl ? At 14 years of age and no doubt the Indians considered her mature enough to have a husband . God only knows the horror & violations that were committed against this poor abandoned young lady , I can only hope & pray that she adjusted to the new life she was forced into .. I have always been able to see both sides of the struggles between Indians & Settlers , but to kidnap a 14 year old girl after killing her mother and a servant girl who at 13 was probably very close to Alice & Alice to her , is excusable and what they deserved , they apparently never received . Your struggles are now over sweet princess , rest in the arms of the Lord . I am sorry your father didn't have the balls to look for you and avenge his wife and your mother . And I am sorry you never saw your friend the servant girl ever again .. Damn this story breaks my freakin heart !! You presented this piece of history very well Sir .

Numana, Comanche, and, The Snakes that always come back.

Please get your facts right. You said that Mrs. Todd died 5 days after been severely wounded but the remembrance stone say it is about 3 weeks.

Those stories of white women taken by Natives always very interesting accordind to others accounts Natives would always took blond or red girls and married with them Well know stories of Cyntia married to Quanah

Saba is *not* pronounced Saw-bah. Please keep these intriguing yet sadly not well known tales of history coming. Apologies

How has this guy proven that this story is true. I question it because we never get anywhere close to 14 inches of snow in central Texas. Maybe, Amarillo, but not San Saba.

Can think of nothing worse than this im Texan and yes.....they were savages....🇨🇱😡

Very pretty girl Certainly not 17 too little

They were so courageous!!!!! And we, as modern day Americans, feel strongly put out when told to wear masks, temporarily, to avoid the deadly Covid pandemic.

People seem to conveniently forget, that native American were captured and held as slaves too, along with the African-Americans. The Comanche and Kiowa had heard the stories that passed from tribe to tribe. They were prepared to resit the encroachment of settlers into their territory. It is well known that the Comanche were capable of great love towards the people they adopted into their tribe. They were also capable of fierce savagery against those not of their tribe. The point is, that we, the white settlers from the time we stepped our feet on the shores of this continent proved ourselves to be a brutal, lying, and greedy race

It should be called native American. Why give the name indian and tarnish India.

Savages

do you ever describe what the white men did to the Native men and women that caused them to be so hostile????

Seems like they would start getting woke, I mean, it was over with the galling gun, cannons all that

It was the Native Red Indians HOMELAND not your Ancestors.

Unworthy histiory?im not American and I’m aware there were Indian attacks and which tribes were responsible and/or why there were attacks and what led up to there occurrence Scalped in the usual Indian fashion ? Sorry this practice was not started by the Indians Just wonder what your agenda is with the areas you concentrate on with no context in Unwirthy History