boba
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Post by boba on May 31, 2016 19:52:10 GMT -5
I was wondering if any of the Alamo defenders kinfolk ever visited the Alamo ruins in the years following the battle.I read somewhere that Crockett's son became a volunteer in the Texian army but whether he made it to San Antonio is debatable .Also Susanna Dickinson apparently went back when she was elderly in the 1870s. To relive the horror and bloodshed she witnessed,it must have been traumatic.Enrique Esparza lived in San Antonio and seeing the ruins daily,reminding him of his father,had to be a lifetime haunting memory.Probably a lot of lasting nightmares for all the surviving kinfolk.There had to be others who had to come and see where their loved ones died for the noble cause,the freedom of Texas.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 1, 2016 15:43:06 GMT -5
You have already named those whom I know of that returned or might have returned. I'm afraid the rest is speculation. Mrs. Dickinson was definitely effected by her return visit to the room (still there) where she stayed in the Alamo church.
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Post by Herb on Jun 2, 2016 17:10:55 GMT -5
Not kinfolks,but garrison members, JW Smith, Sutherland, Seguin, Maverick, Deaf Smith, i'm sure I'm omitting somebody, all returned to San Antonio. Maverick even bought the NW corner and built his home on the grounds.
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Post by Rich Curilla on Jun 2, 2016 21:25:51 GMT -5
All of these guys (even Sutherland) either lived in Bexar already or had designs on living there before the siege began. For Seguin and Maverick, it must have been extra poignant. Seguin got to go out as messenger and had left his men there, all of whom died. Maverick would have been one of the defenders if they hadn't elected him to represent them in the convention that ultimately declared independence. Maverick was an astute businessman and bought all the land north of the Alamo to start a housing development, but I do believe he also had a guilty passion to live on the site where his friends all died. He even seems to have collected Alamo cannon, since a bunch were dug up in the early 20th. century under the floor of a modern building that was on the exact site of his home. He was, in a way, the first Alamo buff.
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