The Lawless Horrell Boys of Lampasas, Texas

Among the early settlers of Lampasas County, Texas was the Horrell and Higgins families. First settling here from Georgia in 1848 was the Higgins family. Their son, John Calhoun Pinkney “Pink” Higgins was just a baby, who would grow up to become a hard-working rancher and one of the main “players” in the bloody feud that was to come.

Sometime later, in 1857, the Horrell family from Arkansas would settle near the Higgins property. The families were friendly neighbors until the 1870s when tensions began to build between them. When the Horrell sons – Mart, Tom, Merritt, Ben, and Sam grew up, they were a rowdy bunch and in 1873 had their first run-in with the law.

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