Thomas C. and Eliza V. Felps
The Texas Historical Commission plaque in the Miller Creek Cemetery says, "Thomas C. and Eliza V. Felps. 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 where 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." The more contemporary to the event gravestone reads "THOMAS C. FELPS, Born Nov 10th 1824, He and his wife, ELIZA V FELPS, was murdered by the [sic] Indians July 21th 1869"