At the time of her death, Mrs. Reasoner probably was the only person in this section of the state who had been an Indian captive. Mrs. Reasoner, who would have been 94 years old March 1, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alice Hall of Thurber. Mrs. Reasoner had been blind 13 years and bedridden 18 months. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Doty Cemetery beside her husband, Jesse, who died 29 years ago. Rev. Anderson of the Thurber Methodist church conducted the last rites.
Survivors are three daughters, Mars.
Mrs. Reasoner, who maiden name was Lemley, came to Texas and Erath county in the early sixties from Illinois. The family settled near the present site of Huckabay and there, with a small group of other settlers, planted their homes in the virgin soil of young Erath county. Long ago the long dark hair that saved Mrs. Reasoner from being murdered by Indians, as were her sister and another young woman, turned gray, but the woman who battled the terrors of early day Erath never forgot her trying experiences with the vanishing warriors of the Southwest. It was in 1856 when Mrs. Reasoner was 16 years old that she was taken prisoner by a band of warriors who were causing many outrages in Erath county. Her father, Mr. Lemley, was building a log house near Huckabay and was being assisted by other settlers in the community.