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Post by Jim Boylston on May 1, 2007 10:47:24 GMT -5
I took a couple of snaps on a recent trip to Goliad. It wasn't quite the fortress we expected, and made us reevaluate our opnions of Fannin.    Jim |
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Post by TRK on May 1, 2007 11:19:28 GMT -5
Nice photos, Jim!
Did you happen to check out whose grave is in front of the church? Such burial sites, in front of churches and chapels, interest me: I've visited a number of such establishments in northern Mexico, and my impression was that generally "anybody who was anybody" was usually interred inside the church, under the floor. I recall several small churches with burials in the transepts that dated back to the 1500s and 1600s.
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Post by Jim Boylston on May 1, 2007 12:52:00 GMT -5
I really don't recall. I'll dig through my photos from the trip and see if I caught a placard or headstone in any of them.
The chapel courtyard is where Fannin is thought to have been executed.
The church itself is still in use. It's intereior looked very much like the church at Concepcion.
Jim
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Post by sloanrodgers on May 2, 2007 22:47:04 GMT -5
Wow! Really nice pics Alamo, especially that middle one. And you didn't even have to
put a pretty girl in it. I love old Spanish architecture. It has a mystique that's unique.
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Post by Allen Wiener on May 3, 2007 12:11:22 GMT -5
When I was in London and toured Westminster Abbey, I was surprised to see so many famous people buried under the floor. Everyone was walking all over their graves and reading the inscriptions carved into the floor. I believe Queen Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots are interred, literally head-to-head, in an actual above ground crypt with their likenesses carved in the lids.
AW
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Post by Herb on May 3, 2007 22:27:29 GMT -5
The gate in the bottom picture is literally the Water Gate. No well in the compound, and a pretty good ways to dash to the river for water. I don't see a marker, but recall seeing one as Jim says, that said Fannin was executed in the area between the gate and grave, irc.
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Post by mustanggray on May 11, 2007 16:03:03 GMT -5
If I remember correctly the marker is for a lady buried in the later 1800's... somewhere around the 1870's I think but don't quote me. I've looked at that headstone several times but just can't remember the name or actual date on it.
Scott McMahon
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