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Post by witlesstex on Nov 27, 2007 13:10:42 GMT -5
Can someone tell me the name of the family that Susanna Dickinson left Gonzales with when she retuned there to deliver the news about the fall of the Alamo? Off hand, I can't even remember what book I'd read the information in.
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Post by Allen Wiener on Nov 27, 2007 15:37:31 GMT -5
Susannah and Angelina stayed at the home of John and Sarah Nash Bruno, which was about 3 miles from Gonzales. They had been accomanied from Bexar by a free black man named Ben, who was a servant and/or cook to Santa Anna or Almonte (or both). At some point, Travis's slave, Joe, joined them. Some sources say Ben left the group. Susannah also was met by "Deaf" Smith and Henry Karnes, who escorted Susannah the rest of the way to Gonzalez.
My source for this is Susanna Dickinson: Messenger of the Alamo by C. Richard King (1976, Shoal Creek Publishers, Inc., Austin). Another source, with some differences in the account, is Women and Children of the Alamo by Crystal Sasse Ragsdale (1994, State House Press, Austin). There is another book on the Alamo survivors that I saw last March at the Alamo gift shop, but I can't recall the title or author.
AW
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Post by witlesstex on Nov 27, 2007 15:49:03 GMT -5
Thanks. Would the Brunos be the same family that she began the Runnaway Scrape with, or does anyone know for sure? Also, it's never been established where, at what location, that she left Texas, has it? Seems like I've heard somewhere that she went into Louisiana for awhile, but that's all that is known about it. Am I correct?
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Post by bmoses on Nov 27, 2007 16:18:36 GMT -5
There's a thorough article at the Texas Handbook Online about her life after the Alamo, but it doesn't say anything about her moving to Louisiana. The article is authored by C. Richard King who wrote Susanna Dickinson: Messenger of the Alamo (Austin: Shoal Creek, 1976).
[ftp]http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/fdi6.html[/ftp]
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Post by Allen Wiener on Nov 27, 2007 17:28:51 GMT -5
As I recall, it was her wayward daughter, Angelina, "the Babe of the Alamo," who wandered off from her own first husband, John Maynard Griffith and their 3 children to New Orleans, where she married Oscar Holmes in 1864. She later married or simply lived with a man named Jim Britton, but ended up dying in a brothel there in 1869. According to King's book, a N.O. newspaper reported that Emma Britton (the name she was then known by, "aged 37, dead of uterus hemorrhage."
Regarding the Runaway Scrape, apparently Susanna did accompany the Bruno's. According to King "The Brunos and Susanna and her baby made their way to Nash Creek. After the Battle of San jacinto, the Bruno family returned to Gonzales."
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