Post by Greg C. on Apr 30, 2007 13:56:20 GMT -5
I hope to post one of these every once and a while to give information on some of the lesser known defenders. I'll start with a biography of Richard L. Stockton from my home state of New Jersey (the only defender from there). The idea came when I was on the highway yesterday and stopped at a rest station named after Stockton. I didnt put 2 and 2 together until a while later when i realized which Stockton it was.
STOCKTON, RICHARD LUCIUS (1817-1836). Richard Lucius Stockton, Alamo defender, was born in 1817, possibly in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Anna Williamson Stockton. His father died in 1823, and he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, with his mother. He reached Nacogdoches, Texas, at about the same time as David Crockettqv and other Tennessee volunteers and enlisted in the Texas Volunteer Auxiliary Corps there in December of 1835. He was sent to San Antonio de Béxar with Crockett and was killed with the others in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6, 1836. He was unmarried at the time of his death. His sister Emma Matilda Stockton Cox filed a bounty land certificate on the basis of his service in 1845. The land was ultimately patented on land in Bosque and Hamilton County. In 1849 Emma married Commodore Edwin Ward Mooreqv of the Texas Navy.
STOCKTON, RICHARD LUCIUS (1817-1836). Richard Lucius Stockton, Alamo defender, was born in 1817, possibly in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Anna Williamson Stockton. His father died in 1823, and he moved to Charlottesville, Virginia, with his mother. He reached Nacogdoches, Texas, at about the same time as David Crockettqv and other Tennessee volunteers and enlisted in the Texas Volunteer Auxiliary Corps there in December of 1835. He was sent to San Antonio de Béxar with Crockett and was killed with the others in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6, 1836. He was unmarried at the time of his death. His sister Emma Matilda Stockton Cox filed a bounty land certificate on the basis of his service in 1845. The land was ultimately patented on land in Bosque and Hamilton County. In 1849 Emma married Commodore Edwin Ward Mooreqv of the Texas Navy.
