Very incomplete list!
Note: Most of these deaths took place during declared or
undeclared wars between settlers and the indigenous population of
North America.
in chronological order
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William Christian (c.1743-1786) —
Born in Staunton,
Va., about 1743.
Lawyer;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1773-75; colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War.
Manx
ancestry.
Killed while fighting Indians in what is now Clark
County, Ind., April 9,
1786 (age about 43
years).
Interment at Bullitt Family Cemetery, Louisville, Ky.
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Richard Butler (1743-1791) —
of Pennsylvania.
Born in Ireland,
April
1, 1743.
Colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; state
court judge in Pennsylvania, 1788; member of Pennsylvania
state senate, 1790.
Killed on an expedition against Indian tribes, November
4, 1791 (age 48 years, 217
days).
Original interment in unknown location; reinterment at Soldiers
Monument, Fort Recovery, Ohio.
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William Butler (d. 1818) —
of Georgia.
Member of Georgia state legislature, 1800.
Killed by Indians at Butler Springs, Butler
County, Ala., March
20, 1818.
Burial location unknown.
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Wiley Thompson (1781-1835) —
of Elberton, Elbert
County, Ga.
Born in Amelia
County, Va., September
23, 1781.
Democrat. Member of Georgia state legislature, 1817; U.S.
Representative from Georgia, 1821-33 (at-large 1821-25, 3rd
District 1825-29, at-large 1829-33).
Slaveowner.
Killed by the Seminole Indians at Fort King, Marion
County, Fla., December
28, 1835 (age 54 years, 96
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Richard Gentry (1788-1837) —
of Columbia, Boone
County, Mo.
Born in Madison
County, Ky., August
25, 1788.
Democrat. Member of Missouri
state senate, 1826-29; postmaster at Columbia,
Mo., 1829-37.
One of the founders of Smithton, later Columbia, Mo., 1820.
Killed while fighting Indians at the battle of Okeechobee, Okeechobee
County, Fla., December
25, 1837 (age 49 years, 122
days).
Original interment somewhere in Okeechobee, Fla.; reinterment at Jefferson
Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, Mo.
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Samuel T. Allen (d. 1838) —
of Texas.
Born in New York.
Delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Viesca, 1835;
served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; member
of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1836-37.
Killed by Indians at the three forks of the Trinity, Texas, 1838.
Burial location unknown.
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Charles Bent (1799-1847) —
of Taos, Taos
County, N.M.
Born in Charles Town, Jefferson
County, Va. (now W.Va.), November
11, 1799.
Governor
of New Mexico Territory, 1846-47; died in office 1847.
Scalped and killed by Pueblo attackers during the Taos Revolt,
Taos, Taos
County, N.M., January
19, 1847 (age 47 years, 69
days).
Interment at Santa
Fe National Cemetery, Santa Fe, N.M.
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George Washington Barnett (1793-1848) —
also known as G. W. Barnett —
of Texas.
Born in South Carolina, December
12, 1793.
Served in the Texas Army during the Texas War of Independence; delegate
to Texas Republic Republic constitutional convention from
District of Washington, 1836; signer,
Texas Declaration of Independence, 1836; member of Texas
Republic Senate from District of Washington, 1837-43.
Presbyterian.
Killed by Lipan-Apache Indians while hunting
deer near Gonzales, Gonzales
County, Tex., October
8, 1848 (age 54 years, 301
days).
Interment at Old
Cemetery, Gonzales, Tex.
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William L. Baker (d. 1863) —
of Maryland.
U.S. Consul in Guaymas, 1861-63, died in office 1863.
Killed by Indians at Guaymas, Sonora,
January
6, 1863.
Burial location unknown.
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John Calhoun Johnson (d. 1876) —
also known as John C. Johnson; "Cockeye
Johnson" —
of California.
Member of California
state assembly 18th District, 1855-56.
Laid out the Johnson Cutoff (now U.S. Highway 50) from Carson City,
Nev. to Placerville, Calif.
Killed by Apache Indians while digging a ford across the San
Pedro River, Tres Alamos, Cochise
County, Ariz., September
13, 1876.
Burial location unknown.
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