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Kuykendall, "Reminiscences of Early Texans," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 7, no. 1, July 1903, p. 48; Dilue Rose Harris, "The Reminiscences of Dilue Rose Harris," The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, vol. 4, no. 2, October 1900, pp. 118-119; The Austin Papers, vol. 1, pp. 1208-1211. Sarah Dyer's father was William Stafford. Clement Clinton Dyer would eventually become chief justice of Fort Bend County. Harris relates that the incident which caused their departure from the Colorado occurred in 1825, and that the Indians who came to the house professed their friendship, supporting the otherwise unwarranted conclusion that the Indians were the same group that stole the horses from the Alleys.