Notes for Samuel Mather
Notes On The Places of Williamson County, p425:
Gabriel Mills, once-thriving community on the North Gabriel, site of early mill known variously as Mather Mills, Gabriel Mills or Brizendine Mills. Englishman Samuel E. Mather settled there, 1849, built water powered grist mill near present low water bridge. An early customer was Chief Yellow Wolf of the Comanches. Mather also did blacksmithing and the Chief brought him some silver ore to be made into ornaments, offered to lead him to the ore 'three suns to the west', which Mather declined. John T. Stewart and family left Tennessee for Texas in 1851, had their horses stolen by Indians in Houston, finally reached Gabriel Mills on March 5, 1852. The Stewart women took their muskets when they did the family wash in San Gabriel River. When serious threats of Indian attack were rumored, the women and children were moved to Fort Black twenty-five miles up the North Gabriel until danger was over.
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