Letter of John H. Crisp, March 19, 1868, Reconstruction Documents Collection (Ms. 70), Archives of the Nesbitt Memorial Library, Columbus; Galveston Daily News, October 11, 1868; Houston Daily Times, December 12, 1868; [Hempstead] Texas Countryman, June 25, 1869, July 16, 1869, July 23, 1869, July 30, 1869, August 6, 1869, September 17, 1869; Colorado County District Court Records, Criminal Cause File No. 789: State of Texas v. Rudolph Mewes; Colorado County Police [Commissioners] Court Minutes, Book 1862-1876, pp. 144, 145. In reporting the deaths in Eagle Lake, the newspaper states that "Wilson Wood, Drumgoole, wife and two children" were drowned. None of these persons have been further identified.