Juana Josefina Cavasos Barnard

Juana Josefina Cavasos Barnard (c. 1822–1906) was a Mexican-American Indian captive, slaveowner, and pioneer around present-day Somervell County, Texas.

In 1900 Cavasos gave an oral testimony of her story titled "My life with the Indians" to her granddaughter Verdie Barnard Alison.

[3] For the next 15 years Cavasos worked alongside her husband and his brother running the day-to-day operations of the Comanche Peak trading house.

Business was reportedly quite good until the native American customers were removed by the United States Government and sent to the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Oklahoma.

[1] In 1859 Cavasos and her husband used slave labor to construct the first building, a mill, in present-day Glen Rose, Texas.