Redeemed captive begins trip home

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1866, Elizabeth Ann Carter Clifton finally began her six-week trip home after being a captive of Plains Indians for two years.
Her capture in the Elm Creek Raid in Young County was just one of a series of tragedies she endured during her life.
Born in 1825 and married at age sixteen, Elizabeth and her first husband, Alexander Joseph Carter, a free black, started a ranch near Fort Belknap in Young County. Continued