Juana Josefina Cavasos Barnard
Juana Josefina Cavasos Barnard (c. 1822–1906) was a Mexican-American Captivity narrative, Indian captive, slaveowner, and pioneer around present-day Somervell County, Texas. Cavasos was born to María Josefina Cavasos in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. On August 15, 1844 Cavasos along with a friend she was visiting were both abducted by Comanche near the Rio Grande, Rio Grande river. There are several conflicting reports regarding the duration of her captivity, but her own personal account implies that it was less than a month in total. In 1900 Cavasos gave an oral testimony of her story titled "My life with the Indians" to her granddaughter Verdie Barnard Alison. Cavasos died of a stroke in 1906. Family Her family was from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. In 1848 she married Charles E. Barnard and they had fourteen children, six of whom survived into adulthood. Based on her oral testimony she "had twenty-five grandchildren and thirteen great-grandchildren. ...
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