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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 24, 2008 23:52:36 GMT -5
are there any artifacts from the battle of the alamo to have been looted and passed down through family generations? I think there has to be lots of stuff floating out in Mexcio, because from what I tend to hear and have read, after the battle many soilders looted the battle site. I would think they would not have burned all of these items.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 25, 2008 0:21:03 GMT -5
are there any artifacts from the battle of the alamo to have been looted and passed down through family generations? I think there has to be lots of stuff floating out in Mexcio, because from what I tend to hear and have read, after the battle many soilders looted the battle site. I would think they would not have burned all of these items. Well, some items were taken back by the Texians at San Jacinto, including Travis' saddlebags marked "WBT". Over on thealamofilm site, there's a thread about a rifle that was found in Mexico that may've been captured at the Alamo and then carried back by troops under Andrade who'd remained in San Antonio until May, 1836. There's even a thread on this site regarding the discovery of what may prove to be Micajah Autry's watch. |
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 0:25:21 GMT -5
wow thats awesome to hear. You would have to think there was many things that had to be attractive to many peoples eyes. I would think the bowie knife, anything to maybe do with travis, anything to maybe to with Davy, but I hear that the mexician soilders would not really have known how important to the American way he was.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2008 8:54:55 GMT -5
Crockett's vest is also on display at the Alamo, if you haven't yet seen it...
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Post by neferetus on Mar 25, 2008 9:51:21 GMT -5
Crockett's vest is also on display at the Alamo, if you haven't yet seen it... And the Travis catseye ring that he supposedly gave to little Angelina Dickinson. |
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2008 9:57:22 GMT -5
Crockett's vest is also on display at the Alamo, if you haven't yet seen it... And the Travis catseye ring that he supposedly gave to little Angelina Dickinson. We're lucky the ring actually made it safely back. From what I read that ring changed hands several times after Angelina got it, and with the wild life she living and all. Didn't she become a prostitute or am I getting her confused with someone else? |
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Post by neferetus on Mar 25, 2008 10:03:20 GMT -5
Sadly, both she and Angelina tured to that profession for a time. They were women alone and to survive in the wild and wooly environment of early Texas, a woman did what she had to to do.
In the end though, Susanna Dickinson (Hannig) married well.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 25, 2008 10:05:51 GMT -5
Here's another question for you Nef. Is it "Dickinson", or "Dickerson"?
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Post by neferetus on Mar 25, 2008 11:06:23 GMT -5
Here's another question for you Nef. Is it "Dickinson", or "Dickerson"? I think that this was recently discussed over on thealamofilm site. Almaron Dickinson married Susanna Wilkerson. On the marriage licence, the clerk may've inadvertently mixed the two names together, because he wrote out the name as"Dickerson". Almaron however, affixed his name to the document as "Dickinson". As 1836 was not exactly a year when the majority of the population were literate, people would often sound out a name and then write down what they thought they'd heard. I had a lot of fun with the Dickinson name in ONE DOMINGO MORNING. If you recall, no two persons pronounces it correctly. I used the family name of "Dickerson", simply because I like it better. But characters in the book refer to Susanna as "Dickerson", "Dickinson", "Dickson", "Dickason", you name it. |
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Post by Dave Berry on Feb 6, 2014 22:41:35 GMT -5
I went round and round with my GG grandfather Pridge married 'to Martha Berry. I mean sure she was Mrs. Berry,,,,but after two year I actually go ahold of the nmarriage License and her maiden name WAS Berry,,,she was first cousin... Is it possible and Dickenson and Dickerson were the same name...could they have been cousins> Did anyone ever do a geneology on them?
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Post by neferetus on Feb 11, 2014 1:51:13 GMT -5
I went round and round with my GG grandfather Pridge married 'to Martha Berry. I mean sure she was Mrs. Berry,,,,but after two year I actually go ahold of the nmarriage License and her maiden name WAS Berry,,,she was first cousin... Is it possible and Dickenson and Dickerson were the same name...could they have been cousins> Did anyone ever do a geneology on them? Well, it was Susanna Wilkerson and Almaron Dickinson. When their marriage license was written up, the clerk sort of combined the two spellings into "Dickerson". |
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