The Edwards Farm massacre occurred in 1868 when a Comanche war party led by Chief Scar attacked an American farm in West Texas and massacred the Edwards family.
The Comanche stole cattle belonging to the Swedish immigrant settler Lars Jorgensen, leading Reverend Samuel Johnston Clayton to deputize his neighbors into the Texas Rangers and set out after the Caddo or Kiowa Indians whom Mose Harper supposed had stolen the cattle. Once the Ranger party located the bull dead in the desert, Ethan Edwards warned the others that the Comanche had likely killed the bull as part of a murder ritual that would precede a raid on the settlers' undefended homesteads. Chief Scar and his party took this time to attack the nearby farms, and, at the Edwards Farm, they killed Ethan's brother Aaron Edwards, his wife Martha, and their son Ben and kidnapped their daughters Lucy and Debbie Edwards. Clayton and Edwards' party promptly set out to rescue the two girls from their Indian captors and avenge the massacred homesteaders.
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