Ignacio Serna
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Ignacio Serna and Family. He has an elementary school and post office named after him in San Antonio. He married a daughter of the Hines family in Selma, Texas, Frances Virginia Hines. Her brother Lewis was a friend of Ignacio's during the Civil War. A little known fact: Ignacio Serna escaped Buffalo Hump and his tribe near the Indian Agency operated by Maj. Robert Simpson Neighbors. Ignacio was only 7 years old and was out with his older brother herding their father's sheep when the Indians came riding through and kidnapped both boys out of Mexico taking them into Texas. Ignacio never saw his brother again. The only reason he wasn't killed outright was that the Indians would tie him to their wild horses to break them. He wasn't fed and taken care of until an old Indian woman took pity on him and started giving him food. He was with the Indians for about 2 years. He managed to escape and hide out in the under brush for a couple of days until the Indians gave up looking for him. Ignacio made his way to the Agency operated by Maj. Robert S. Neighbors who was the general supervisor of all Indians in Texas. Neighbors took in Ignacio and ended up adopting him as his son. Neighbors was assassinated in Fort Belknap in 1864 because of his sympathetic views of the Texas Indians which was a real unpopular viewpoint back then. Click here for more information about Ignacio Serna. Submitted by Jean Heide |