To quote from Lynch Harper’s “Cemeteries of Titus County”, “To quote from Traylor Russell’s “History of Titus County” we find this information”. “In 1841, (in R. L. Jurney’s History of Titus County, he states it was in April) the Ripley family was living North of Winfield on what is now the Joseph Reed Survey of land, and on a tract owned by the Banks Family. Eight members of this family were killed by the Indians. Charles Black was a Methodist Minister and living in this area when this occurred, and stated that he helped to bury these people, He pointed out to Calude Lawrence, who still lives on lands adjoining the Banks lands, where these people were buried. He stated that they were buried on the West end of a tract of land now owned by Bernice Allen out of the Joseph Mattews Survey, and at a point immediately West of the place where the country road turns to the left across the Banks land. There are no monuments or anything else to indicate the location of these graves therefore, no effort was expended to locate it exactly.