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Joseplı Ramion Ramos, Diego de los Santos and Augustin de Imenarrieta, present, and neiglibors of this said town, and who signed it at the request of those who could not sign, and those that could sign for themselves before me, the present Notary, I certify
Juan Leal Goraz, Francisco Arocha, Bisente Alvarez, Francisco Antonio Santo, Juan Del- gado, at request of Juan Curbelo, Manuel de Niz, Juan Leal the boy, Josephe Cabrera, Salvador Rodriguez, Josephe Padron, and the four that comprised thie extra family ; and for the widows Maria Rodriguez and Maria Meleano. (Witnesses) Diego de los Santos, Josephe Ramon Ramos, Augustin Imenarrieta. Before nie,
JUAN SANCHEZ DE TAGLE, Royal Notary Public and of the Corporation. |
"At that epoch the Marquis of Casa Fuerte was Governor in New Spain, it was he who ordered General Don Mathias de Aguirre to provide the settlers of San Antonio de Bejar with necessaries to enable them to continue their expedi- tion to the said Presidio.
* The various spellings of Bexar are indicative of the plasticity of Spanish pronunciation.
+ The translation is not at fault, but there seems to be an error here in addition on the part of some one.
Į The Mexican hand-mill for crushing grain.
l; Cabildo.
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"General Aguirre died before the Viceregal Government had paid him the value of the animals and provisions that he had furnished from his own resources. For this reason Señora Ana Maria de Almandos, wife of the defunct Aguirre exe- cuted a power in Saltillo on the first of October, of the year 1732, before the Pub- lic Notary Dn. Juan Sanchez de Tagle, in favor of Dn. Fernando de Ugarte, of the vicinity of the Capital of Mexico, in order to attend before the Viceroy to the payment which was due her defunct husband.
"The four hundred families, that the King had ordered to be transported to Texas instead of having been sent direct to that province, were disembarked at the Port of Vera Cruz so that they might arrive at their destination overland, and we see that only sixteen families arrived in Bexar and they were the founders of San Fernando contiguous to the Mission of San Antonio."
UNIVERSITY
--- OF CALIFORNIA
SAN ANTONIO CITY HALL.
Historical, Statistical and Interesting Dates of, and Relating to the City of San Antonio.
JANUARY.
First prominent settlement near the head of the San Antonio River, 1692.
The first charter was granted to San Antonio by the King of Spain in 1733 or 1734.
1
La Salle landed about this time on the Texas coast . 1685 Edward King writes "A Visit to San Antonio," A sketch for Scribner's Magazine
for January
1874
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express opens here for the Sunset Road .
1883
2
The Puebla of San Antonio de Valero is aggregated to the curacy of the town of San Fernando and Presidio of San Antonio de Bexar . 1793
3
Sam Houston comes to San Antonio for the first time about this date in company with Janies Bowie . 1833 One hundred men of the Third Michigan Cavalry arrested for mutiny 1866
4
Mr. W. G. Tobin shows his great skill as a pistol marksman by shooting an apple, at a distance of thirty feet, off the head of Thomson Green of New York, at a shoot- ing gallery here . 1858
East Commerce Street Railroad is begun .
1884
San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad gets to Floresville
1886
5
An Act to incorporate the town of Nacogdoches and other towns (in which is in- cluded San Antonio) herein named, by the Republic of Texas (2nd document) : . 1837
130
SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR.
First meeting of San Antonio Literary Association 6
1860
7
Kalteyer's drug store about completed . 1872 First passenger and mail train goes out to Floresville .. 1886
8
Umbrella China Trees are introduced by Mr. C. L. Lege, Senior. He plants two on North Flores street as an experiment. Nearly all San Antonio Umbrella China trees liave been propagated from these two (are still standing, 1890) . 1863 The German English School has 265 pupils 1870
9
We have a pretty cold spell, but the thermometer reads 11º above Zero 1886
10
General Winfield Scott Hancock is received at the Post. . 1884
11
Wild Turkeys are so plentiful in the market as to be a drug at 15 and 20 cents a piece. 1878 We get a small snowstorm1 . 1.886
12
La Salle still in Texas. See March 30 1687 Sunset Road makes connection with the Southern Pacific, 247 miles West of San
Antonio, 400 niiles East of El Paso. A silver spike is driven at the meeting . . . 1883
13
Sanı Houston is mentioned for President of the United States 1860
14
Act of Incorporation of the City of San Antonio (5th document) . 1842
"Uncle Billy" Lytle an old Texan veteran dies . 1878
15
Two men in a boat are descending the San Antonio River to the sea. They started
on January 13tl1. . 1886
16
Haas & Oppenheimer's Store begun on Main St. . 1883
17
Moses Austin obtains the first colonist Empresario grants 1821 The Casino on Market St. opened witli a German performance 1858
Contract is let for the completion of the Court House on Soledad St. 1883
18
Wolfson buys the "White Elephant". 1886
131
THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
19
1806
General Robert E. Lee's birthday . 20 First issue of the "Evening Light" (continuation of the "Surprise. See April 3rd) . 1881 21
Ben Thompson is acquitted by the Jury of murder, in the District Court 1883 First ground broken for the laying of Mesquite blocks on Alamo Plaza . 1889
22
First stone street crossings are made .
1878
23
The wet weather interrupts for some weeks the laying of Mesquite Blocks and the improvements on Alamo Plaza . . 1889
24
An Act to incorporate the City of San Antonio was voted upon and rejected by the people (sixth docunient) 1852
25
Buffalo hides and meat from the frontier. (See May 24) 1877 The "Military Headquarters" now the Maverick Hotel, are completed .. 1878
26
Supplementary Act to act of Incorporation of San Antonio (fourth ducnment) . . . . 1839
27 The building of St. Mark's Episcopal Church is completed. (See April 25th) . . . . 1875
28
Foundation of San Antonio Water Works pump house made
1878
29
The first Railroad train crosses the Brazos on the Texas and Central Road . .. 1861 A County election for the Pierce Railroad subsidy of $300,000. County vote polled 2694. Vote required 2636. 58 Majority. This vote procured the Sunset Road for San Antonio 1876
30
The Alamo Literary Society adopts a plan for a Hall to be erected on the large lot given by Mr. S. A. Maverick for that purpose on Houston St. . 1872 This Hall was never finished, it was afterwards used as a wholesale commission store and was burned out. In the meanwhile it was transferred to J. H. Kampnian. Four handsome stores were erected on this lot in March, 1890. .
31
The Menger Hotel is hospitably opened 1859 Judge Noonan's special court is dispersed by Kickapoo Indians at Uvalde . 1869
Quartermaster's depot buildings at the Post are completed . 1878 Callaglian is first elected Mayor of San Antonio . 1885
132
SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR.
FEBRUARY.
1
Santa Anna starts from Saltillo with six thousand men to invade Texas 1836 First English Cricket Club established . 1873
2
Travis in San Antonio . 1836 First R. R. train comes from San Francisco to San Antonio on the Southern Pacific
Route. (See February 6) . 1883
3
Alteration to "Headquarters" building otherwise Maverick Hotel begun. (See September 15, 1877 and April 11, 1883.) 1882
4
C. Elmendorf, a prominent New Braunfels immigrant of '44 dies in San Antonio . . 1878 Very cold and very slippery with ice. Telephone wires and trees break with the burden of ice caused by the wet norther from the 4th to the 6th. 1883
5
Mr. Morton introduces a bill into the Senate to constitute San Antonio a "Port of Delivery" 1868 First R. R. train leaves San Antonio with U. S. Officers as passengers for New York on the Sunset or G. H. & S. A. R. R. . 1877 E. H. Terrell, U. S. minister to Belguim (1890) is nominated for Mayor of S. A. but Callaghan is elected on February 14th . 1887
6
Texas volunteers elect John S. Ford, (Col. Rip.) Edward Burleson and F. L. Paschal as officers . 1858 First Water Works Mains are laid on Avenue C, in 1878 Military Headquarters are moved to the buuilding now the Maverick Hotel on Houston 1878 Street.
First through freight train on Southern Pacific R. R. passes San Antonio on the
way to New Orleans . . 1883 "Uncle Jack" Leslie, Texas veteran, dies 1885
133
THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.
7
First freight train on Railroad construction work arrives at San Antonio depot (Sunset). 1877 James P. Newconib appointed Postmaster . 1883
8
A remarkable political illustration published in the S. A. Express, drawn by an Artist Iwonski
1868 Banquet given in honor of 25th anniversary of fire company No. I 1883
9
First appearance of Lawrence Barrett in San Antonio . 1883
10
First Jail Guard House and Military Quarters erected under Baron Ripperda on the Military Plaza (old document in County records) . 1773 Mexican Royalists are defeated at Goliad and return to San Antonio 1813 J. D. Logan, the founder of the first daily paper in Texas, "San Antonio Herald" dies 1878 Maverick Ranch fence, on Bandera Road, cut . . 1885 Frank Scott sent to the Penitentiary for life for the murder of Frank Harris, this is
one of the final chapters in the frightful Robber Cave incidents . 1887
11
Carl Schurz lectures at the Casino 1885
12
Joseph Jefferson says he will not come to San Antonio because there is no Railway.
(See. April 11th, 1888) 1872
13
Supplementary act to supt. act to San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad approved . 1854
14
Supplementary act to San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad enacted
1852
15
Sunset Road really reaches San Antonio, i. e. first freiglit for business men received
this day. J. H. Kampmann receiving a carload of lumber 1877 Two new bridges on Navarro Street tested 1879
16
Annexation of Texas to the United States consummated . 1846 Government property surrendered by General Twiggs at San Antonio to the Secession Convention Commissioners 1860 The old Conception Ditch abandoned on Pagalda Street and the Mill Dam subse-
quently lowered . 1869 Resolution adopted in the City Council to donate forty acres to the General Govern- ment for army purposes in the eastern portion of the City, on the site of tlie Government corral, near the present site of the Post . 1870 International Railroad arrives at last. First passenger trains arrive and depart . . 1881
134
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17
Band of Lipan Indians only nine miles from San Antonio, on the Castroville Road, try to stampede a bunch of mules in charge of a Mexican who holds on to the bell mule. The Indians fail and shoot a mare with arrows, the arrows were afterwards gathered by Mr. Froboese and handed to Gen. Carleton . 1870 Government takes possession of the Mexican Gulf Railroad . 1870
Edwin Booth, the actor, here again . 1888
18
Dr. J. H. Bernard, one of Fannin's men, who was spared at the Goliad massacre, be- cause of his necessity to the Mexican wounded, revisits San Antonio and finds "all the old landmarks vanishing" . 1860
19
Major James Longstreet in San Antonio on his way East "to the States" 1858 Torch light procession, 8,000 strong, in honor of the arrival of the Sunset, first Rail- road for San Antonio . 1877
Paul Wagner begins his new store on Commerce Street. 1879 San Antonio and Aransas Pass Engineers make one more start for the Gulf . 1885
20
Supt. act to supt. act to supt. act of S. A. & Mexican Gulf Railroad . 1856 Indians kill a woman and children in Bandera County . 1870
Contract let for Bexar County new jail. Work begun February 27tlı 1878
21
Colonel Robert E. Lee, Lieutenant Colonel of 2nd regiment of cavalry arrives at San Antonio to take charge of the Department of Texas . 1860
Honoré Grenet dies .. 1882 .
Marshall Hal. Gosling shot and instantly killed on the train at New Braunfels by
Pitts and Yeager. Pitts and Mrs. Downes are killed. Rosa Yeager and Charles Yeager are wounded. Yeager jumps with Pitts from the train, train going at forty miles an hour, Yeager mashes with a stone Pitts' dead hand and escapes. Deputy Marshall Manning, who had made a brave figlit almost alone, is wounded in five places 1885
22
Santa Anna's advanced troops arrive in San Antonio 1836 Travis retires with 150 men to the Alamo . 1836
J. S. Friend advertises for two children stolen by Indians in Llano County . 1868
A meeting called to consider the advisability of petitioning U. S. Congress to divide Texas into two States, East and West Texas 1868
Yeager is captured after an exciting trail . 1885
23
Large excursion trains are now constantly coming in from New England on their way 1887 West
24
The Texans in the Alamo are summoned by Santa Anna to surrender, he is answered by a cannon shot . 1836
Adams and Wicks' wagon master is killed by the Indians near Fort Mason . 1870 The County withdraws from the agreement to build a joint City and County Hall . . 1888
135
THE MONTH OF MARCH.
25
The Dreiss building on Alamo Plaza is completed . . 1878 Sarah Bernhardt passes through on her way East from Mexico . 1887
26
Clock tower on the Convent erected . 1868 First Odd Fellows' Hall on Houston Street dedicated. (Rebuilt 1889-90) 1878 Work on San Antonio's first Street Railroad begun to-day from San Pedro Springs to corner of Alanıo Plaza 1878
27
Yoakum, in his History of Texas, says, funeral honors were accorded the ashes of the heroes of the Alamo. "The dead had been burnt in three piles. The ashes were collected and placed in a neat black coffin, and interred by Juan Seguin by order of the General in Chief." 1837 Turner Hall on Houston Street is begun . 1879
Edwin Booth at the Opera House 1887
28
Colonel R. E. Lee is ordered to follow Cortinas into Mexico if necessary . 1860 It is decided to enlarge the Casino . 1877
29 -
Corner stone of the first Presbyterian Church (corner of Flores and Houston Streets) is laid with much religious ceremony . 1860 A committee on Public Improvements reports favorably on the planting of trees in Main Plaza 1870
MARCH.
1
Texas Annexation Bill signed by U. S. President Tyler . . 1845 Marshal Hal. Gosling receives the reward of $9730 for tlie capture of Polk, tlie ab- sconding Tennessee treasurer . 1883
136
SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR.
2
Sam Houston born .
1793 Royalists defeated here. Fourteen Royalist officers killed and the Republicans enter
San Antonio 1813
Declaration of Texan Independence 1836 Capt. J. W. Smith arrives at the Alamo with thirty men from Gonzales . 1836
Moody and Sankey here . 1886
3
Col. Travis "draws the line" in the Alamo . 1836 Bonhanı returns to the Alamo, having been sent out with a last express message to
Fannin . 1836
Fitzhugh Lee lectures at the Casino on the Battle of Chancellorsville . 1883 The old "Jack Harris" and "Vaudeville" corner is burnt out 1886
4
Siege of the Alamo . 1836 Amendments to the City Charter (twelfth document) 1885
5
Foundation of the Concepcion Mission 1731
It is completed . 1752
Mission of San José completed . 1731
San Juan and Espada Missions begun 1731
First district court held at the New Court House on Soledad street 1883
6
Fall of the Alamo, Sunday morning .
1836
Death of Travis,
Crockett,
Bowie, and about 170 others. 7
Vasquez, with 700 Mexicans, takes possession of San Antonio. Shew of authority on the part of Mexico . 1842 I .. Uhjazzi, a Hungarian patriot of Kossutli's party, shoots himself here at the age of almost 80 years 1870
8
Wolfson makes additions to his storc . 1880 and 1883 The Government accepts a contract for the erection of the new Federal Building and Post Office
1888
9
First fight at the Mission Refugio (see March 10 and 11) . 1836 The Mexicans under Vasquez retire from San Antonio after two days' occupation . 1842
10
Retreat of Houston from Gonzales .
1836
Second battle of Mission Refugio, Mexicans worsted (see March 11)
1836
11
Retreat from Refugio . 1836 General Sherman in San Antonio . 1882
Ben Thompson and King Fisher shot and killed at Vaudeville theatre, Joe Forster wounded in the same scrape . 1884 J. T. Raymond at the Opera House 1887
137
THE MONTH OF MARCH.
12
Groos' Bank and Store begun 1879
13
La Salle killed by his men (see March 30) . 1687 First telephone wire erected in San Antonio from City office of Water Works to the office at the head of the River 1878 The building of Alameda block begun . 1882
14
Phil. Sheridan is here again. From Laredo this time . 1883
15.
Governor Davis is given a reception at the Menger Hotel . 1870
16
Population of San Antonio is estimated to be between ten and twelve thousand . . 1860 U. Lott elected President of the S. A. & A. P. R. R. . 1885 T. J. Devine, a much respected old citizen of San Antonio, having occupied many high public offices, came to San Antonio in 1843, identified with nearly all the best interests of the city, dies at the age of 78 . 1890
17
Battle of Coleta Creek, where the Texans under Fannin gain the advantage . . . . 1836 Big overflow of the river. A man named Tannenberg is drowned on Commerce Street bridge. Two children of Mr. Staarke are drowned the same day . 1865 John Twohig lays the foundation stone of his wall on St. Mary's Street 1869
18
Fannin surrenders to Urea at Coleta Creek . 1836
19
Telephone system is about to be established . 1881
20
A bloody battle with Comanche Indians on the Main and Military Plazas ; 37 Indians killed, 7 whites killed. Mrs. M. A. Maverick was an eye witness of this battle from a place of vantage in the original Maverick Home at the corner of Main Street and Soledad Street . . 1840
A party on an outing start from the Head of the River in a boat, after many difficulties
arrive in the city by nightfall . 1870 A similar feat was performed by John and Joseph Weber (see January 15, '86) 1858
21
Nolan is defeated and killed by Mexicans 1801
22
Josh Billings is in San Antonio . 1878 Joe Forster dies of a wound received in the Vaudeville shooting scrape of March 11th 1884
138
SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR.
23
No. 1 of the Weekly San Antonio Herald appears . 1854 No. 1 of the Daily San Antonio Herald, the oldest Texas daily newspaper, appears . 1857 Confederate Tannery was turned over to the " Freedman's Bureau" 1866
24
The Mier prisoners are decimated by order of Santa Anna, 17 are shot upon drawing black beans at the Hacienda Salado, Mexico . 1843
25
General Grant and party arrive here and get a grand reception. He stays here four days
1880 Mrs. Andrea Castanon de Villanueva, alias Candelaria, petitions for a pension as being the last survivor of the Fall of the Alamo 1889
26
First Public Meeting (of what proved to be a very bitter campaign) of the Prohibition- ists at Turner Hall .
1887
27
The Fannin Massacre, 330 men are shot by the order of Santa Anna at Goliad . 1836 No. 1, of Vol. 4, of San Antonio Weekly Herald is issued . 1858 The Flores Street Street Railroad is completed . . 1884
The work of paving the Alamo Plaza with mesquite blocks is begun in earnest 1889
28
Battle of Salado, after the death of Magee, the Americans under Kemper and Mexican Republicans under Menchaca, ("Rebels") with some Indian bands, are victorious over the San Antonio Royalist troops under the officers in the command of Gov- ernor Salcedo .
1813
29
A band of squaws and a notorious hostile Indian buck, Castalito, are in town, brought
in by Mackenzie 1873
Some skeletons are unearthed in the Alamo Church Building 1878
30
La Salle murdered by one of his own inen near the Neches River 1687 Total miles of Railroad graded on all lines in Texas . 257 miles
Total miles of Iron laid on this .. 132 miles 1858
E. H. Terrell is appointed Minister to Belgium 1889
31
Incident in the "Magee Expedition" (see March 28): Governor Salcedo, Governor Herrera of New Leon, Ex-Governor Cordero and twelve officers of the defeated Royalist troops are murdered a few miles from San Antonio in revenge by the son of Colonel Delgado and others. Kemper and the Americans leave disgusted at · this barbarity . 1813
139
THE MONTH OF APRIL.
APRIL.
1
First case of cholera in the great epidemic (last case June 10th) . . 1849 Adolph Korn, a boy, stolen by Indians in Llano Co., on Jan. 1st, is now advertised for 1870
2
The Mavericks sell Fort Clark for $60,000 . 1884 Dr. Carver is beaten by Penrose at San Pedro Springs in a shooting contest 1885
3
First issue of San Antonio Light. "Evening Light" from January 20, 1881. (See January 20, 1881.) . 1883 Amendments to the City Charter enacted by the legislature 1889
4
Federal Court chooses rooms in the French building, Main Plaza, for Court Room . . 1879 R. A. Procter lectures at the Casino . 1885
Water carts first used for street sprinkling 1878
5
John Chinaman is here . 1875 James Burns, well known citizen, dies of a rattlesnake's bite . 1883
6
President Bustamente prohibits Americans entering Texas 1830 John L. Sullivan gives an exhibition at the Turner Hall . 1884
Col. Frank W. Johnson, one of the most famous Texas veterans, President of the Texas Veteran Association since its inauguration, second in command under Milam and who assumed command at the death of Milain at the storming of San Antonio, dies at Agua Calientes, Mexico . 1884
7
Mexican troops are stationed at San Antonio to check American influence . . . . . . General Sheridan, W. W. Belknap secretary of war, and General Myers are tendered
1830
a big reception at San Pedro Springs, and " wined and, dined " at the Menger . . 1873
140
SAN NATONIO DE BEXAR.
8
St. Mark's parsonage was begun . 1884 Belknap and San Antonio Rifles are ordered out to quell disturbances at Laredo, Texas . 1886 First League base ball game played in San Antonio . 1888 Dr. F. Herff, Senior, permanently settled in San Antonio about this date. (Dr. Herff came first to Texas the end of April, 1847.) 1850
9
A band of 73 Indians arrive under government escort on their way to Fort Mason, Flor- ida. (This is not the Geronimo and Natchez band.) . 1886
10
The Avenue C extension of the street car line is begun . 1880
11
A mass meeting is called in San Antonio to devise means for removing the Kickapoo
Indians from the Texan and Mexican frontier . . 1868 Rear enlargement of the Maverick Hotel begun. (See also Sept. 15, '77, and Feb. 3, '82.)1883 Joseph Jefferson plays Rip Van Winkle at the opera house . 1888
12
First Baptist Church begun
1873
13
French Building is constituted the County Court House . 1868 The sixteenth saengerfest is begun to be hield here . 1887
14
Tom Green dies in the Confederate war of a wound . 1864 A fight is arranged just outside the city limits, at the old Fair grounds, between a bull and a lion and a lioness. The bull gets much the best of it 1878 Bishop Pellicer, first Bishop of San Antonio, dies 1880
15
A home market for wool is established, first wool bought and warehoused here . 1859 Capt. King. the great cattleman and land owner, dies in 1885
16
Urialı Lott is in San Antonio, talking about narrow gauge railroads 1880
17
The corner stone of the additional infirmary at Santa Rosa Hospital is laid 1884 Belknap Rifles go to New York . 1889 .
18
Amendments to certain sections made to the city charter of San Antonio by the Six- teenth Legislature (11th document). 1879 A Mexican named Martinez, suspected of horse theft, was hanged by vigilantes near
the Medina. After hanging six hours he was cut down by friends and he recovered . 1882
141
THE MONTH OF APRIL.
19
Session of Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias in San Antonio, with grand procession . 1887
20
Paris, Texas, gains the first prize for the best drilled uniform division of the Knights of Pytlias .
1887
21
Battle of San Jacinto. "Remember the Alaino." " Remember Goliad." The Mexi- cans under Santa Anna are routed . 1836 First San Antonio Baseball Club organized. J. S. Lockwood, president ; Russell Nor- ton, secretary 1867 First Railroad shipment of cotton into San Antonio by B. Oppenheimer 1877
22
Santa Anna is captured on the prairies and brought to the Texan camp . 1836
23
The first market house, hitherto known as the principal Cuartel, is established by the city . 1840
The Alamo church building is bought by the State under an Act of April 23, for $20,000, from the Catholic church authorities. (See May 16.) . 1883 Indians at Boerne 1870
Moody and Sankey in town 1880
24
Losoya street is opened to intersect Commerce street . 1872 Dick Lombard attacks Billy Sims with a six-shooter at the Vaudeville . 1884
25
One hundred and fifty-six Tonkaways leave for the mountains forty miles north under charge of the United States Government .. 1866
St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral Church is consecrated . 1881
26
Myriads of grasshoppers are seen overhead flying in a northwesterly direction . 1858 The German English school is enlarged to accommodate 500 pupils about this date / 1870 Terrible Indian outrage at Howard's Springs 1872 Odd Fellows Hall on Houston street dedicated. (Since rebuilt 1889-90.) 1878
27
Dr. Cupples arrives in San Antonio . 1844 Bexar County Court House rebuilt on Soledad street 1882
Susan J. Hannig (widow of Lieutenant Al. Marion Dickinson, who was killed in the Alamo) revisits the Alamo with H. B. Andrews, Bishop Quintard of Tennessee, and some early Texan friends. She and her daughter were the sole white survivors of the fall of the Alamo . 1881
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