Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 145, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 17, 1940 Page: 3 of 4
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THE GRAHAM OAILT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IT, 1*4*.
Old Letters Found In U. S.
Archives Indicate Crockett
Probably Did Not Die In Alamo
PhototUik copies of oriirinal let-*by Miss Ramon* Trout, who is em-
ployed in the reference and research
department of the Archives in
V^ashington. She came across them
while searching in the Archives for
tome old Spanish records relating
ters and papers one hundred years
old, discovered in the National Ar-
rives at Washington have been re
reivlft here, which indicate that
uavjtf Crockett, Text* hero of the
Alamo, probably did not die in the j to South Texas oil land titles.
Alamo at San Antonio, but was Miss Trout, who has been in the
taken alive as a prisoner tp Mexico. Archives for more then s year, sent
discovery was made recently photostatic copies of the interest-
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GRAHAM, TEXAS
ing document* as a gift to th* Tex-
as History division of the Museum
at Baylor University and also sent
copies to her parents in Grsham,
Mr. and Mrs. H. I. Trout.
The papers include letters by John
W. Crockett, son of the hero of the
Alamo, written in the spring of
1840 to John Forsyth, Secretary of
State at Waahington and to the
United States Ambassador to Mex-
ico at that time, and letters received
in reply from those officials, also
other correspondence and papers re-
ceived from Mexico by John Crock-
ett, indicating that the famous Dav-
id Crockett probably died a Mexican
prisoner working in a Mexican mine,
near Guadalajara, Mexico, where
overseers of the mine would not
let him correspond with or advise
his relatives in Tennessee, his na-
tive state.
One of the letters from "John
Crockett to Secretary of State For-
syth was as follows:
y
IS
House Representatives,!
April 30th, 1840.
Sir:
The enclosed letter to which I
would respectfully beg your atten-
tion, has as you may naturally sup-
pose stirred in me no ordinary de-
gree of sensibility, and my object
in addressing you is, most respect-
fully to ask your assistance in the
matter to which it relates.
In reviewing all the circumstances
connected with the fate of my father
in connection with the enclosed
statement 1 am unmistakably drawn
to the conclusion that it may pos-
sibly be true. The evidence of his
death at the faff of the Alamo dur-
ing the Revolution in Texas were
contradictory and by no means con-
clusive to my mind. For instance,
it was stated by Mr. Dickenson
and the servant boy of Col. Travis,
the only persons at first supposed
to have escaped the massacre, that
he was killed during the conflict,
and that they saw and recognised
his person soon after it was over
But while Santa Anna was a pris-
oner in Texas, I am informed, he
stated to a number of gentlemen,
that he was saved alive by Alcuante,
and that he, Santa Anna, ordered
him to be put to death after it was
ill over. If Santa Anna’s statement
was true it follows as a matter of
course that Mrs. D. and the servant
boy were mistaken as might easily
have been the case. My own opinion
is that the statement of Santa Anna
is most likely to be true, and if so
it is not impossible, 1 think, arid
hardly improbable that Alcuante and
Filisola may have evaded the execu-
tion of his orders and sent my
father to Mexico with the retreating
portion of the army aa stated, keep-
ing it secret of course from Santa
hood ol Guadelejera; and while
there, a Maxican came to me and
said that there was a man from
Texas, working in Balinua’ mine, i
who had requested of him to ask the I
first American he saw, to come and ’
see him, at he wished to send some 1
word to a family he had left In
Tehneaace. To enter a mine in Mex-
ico you have to obtain permission
from the worker or owner, and he
senda with you the overaeer, who is
ordered to keep strict watch that
you take out of the jgiines no ores
or valuables.”
“I went to the owner, and obtain
ing permission, went with the over-
aeer, and was taken to that passage
of the mine where the convicts are
placed to work. There was some
20 or 26 at work, and amongst them
I recognized the manly form of one
of my countrymen, who, the owner
had told me, was one of the pris-
oners brought on by a part of Fili-
sola’s division/ when he retreated
from Texas.”
“The American upon seeing pie,
stepped forward and grasping .me1 by
the hand, said, ‘ Well, strang- r, you
are the first American I have seen
since I have been in this damned
country; and I don’t think 1 would
have seen you, if I had not made
a friend of one of these devils that
oversee the mine.”
“My unfortunate friend,” I replied,
I have been made aware of the cir-
cumstances that placed you here,
and they are such as to debar me
from rendering you any assistance
more than bearing for you any mes-
sage you may wish.” “I know that,”
he returned, “so let us go about it
'—,.^iuras is David Crockett—I am
frortl Tennessee, and have a falnily
there—they think i that I am dead,
and so does every one else; but they
are mistaken. I should have writ-
ten them, as the overseer told me I
might- write, if 1 could get any per-
son to take a letter for me;, that
was the reason I persuaded the over-
seer to look out for an American
for me: and thanks be to God, I
have got one at last.”
“He related to me the particulars
of his having been taken at Fort
Alamo, in Bexar, and sent, with
two other men, to Laredo; from
which place they had been removed,
with a part of the army that moved
to Monterey—and when the troops
marched from Monterey to' Mexico,
they were sent to Guadelejara, and
placed in the mine by the Alcalde,
at which place they had been ever
since.” *
“He wrote, by me, a letter, to be
sent to his wife and children in
Tennessee, which I sent from Mata
moras, with directions to mail it in
New Orleans, retaining in my pos-
session a copy thereof, for fear, by
THE STORY THUS FAR: Tin rambling, old luma* of tk* Four
Daughter! is as you first saw it. apple trees in bloom, music and all,
bat Dad helps Aunt Etta with tha spring cleaning. Thea it nee
wealthy Mrt Ben Crowley; Emma, the wife of Emsst Talbot,
florist; Kay, still footloose and fancy fret; Ann, the widow of
Mickey Borden, is engaged to the musician, Felix Dietz, but spends
much time brooding over Mickey’s picture. The family finally de-
cides to hide it. Thea and Kay go willt Emma to keep her appoint-
ment with young Dr. Clint Forrest, with whom Kay instantly faBs
in love. Ann comes to join her sisters, but faints, and the doctor re-
veals that she is to become the mother of Mickey’s child. Ana re-
sents the hiding of Mickey’s picture, and feels that her engagement
to Felix must end, though he assures her otkennise. Ann is stiM
morbidly conscious of Mickey and Kay invites Dr. Clint Forrest
to dinner ostensibly to advise Ann, but also that Kay may lensm
him better. After dinner, Ann and Clint leave the house togethse
—to the dismay of Kay and Felix who follow them. Ann and Folia
decide to marry. Thea and the rest plan a big wedding but the young
people elope. They are on their way back to Thea’t party.
CHAPTER V
I1 VERY window of the big new house of Thea and Ben
3-t was blazing with light, and sounds of music and
I;lighter floated out over the dark lawn. In the living
i com till the guests were gathered around Ann and Felix.
' i 3St..cried Adam, raising his glass high, “to the
I. it nd groom — in Aunt Etta's blackberry v.i;ie!”
Teh Crowley, men of the
• —rr.d a rc'.f i-edr man at
_r | (>.., f**0m re-
r:rVnjy to Aunt Etta, when
1 rf v: I-es wan loud
' C . h, I Irish you’d let me
> vrir.e Vnsfto market!”
• ;* "n time.” she retorted
::g.y, 1 to get com-
j- •
,rr : one turned on.the radio,
--:_____-a ; ; b—rail-.furth..
It.. . 2: r.td to Aunt Etta, bov.--
_jjRi_. j. ,0 a courtier, and with
tl.:.t :.{,r .uTily h. Dud smile of
hi' “I’m a married man, but
J, the love f my life!” he
sa.o. At least will you dan-c
with me!"
he raid lightly, “why don’t yoa
play it correctly? Here, let ms
help you—” Ard they pi: wd oa
t 'rcther.
"Doggone it, Then ..bel-
lowed Ad: .u, try ing to bring
the mocJ hack to norrrai, "you
invite people to diniu • n i f ■ed
them canary f-rdl No-: \ i: re
arc throe sand ic’u3-you were
. tal. ilia about? 1 u.a..n yoa—if
I’m found stu vCl in y r living
room people c: c bound to,talk!'*
"i '<•; i.'...!.,,I ; iird
Thea, getting thi id . c 3 'lay-
ing it up, “you eat like r.n actor
... Ho‘:. musician.”
l’eopie laughed and the ten*
Anna, for fear of insuring his dis-i mischance, ii should miscarry,
pleasure ;T° Col. D. L. Wood, with whom I
,f you could with propriety and i ^
it should meet the riew. of the,, heard ^ ^ n(lt ^ in
Pres,dent of the Un.tad States. re-.Mfe whjfh ,, the rcafon , send you
•j quest our minister at Mexico in
I your official capacity if thought best
I to institute an investigation of the
matter and learn if practicable
whether the statement* be true or
false, the favor will be most grate-
| fully remembered.
“I have delayed this application
until this time in hope that the let-
ter said to have been written by
my father to his family in Tennes-
see might be received. But 1 re-
ceived a letter yesterday informing
me that it had not been.
“I have ihe honor to be
Sir, with great respect.
Your most obliging servant,
JOHN W. CROCKETT.
Hon. John IFlorsyth,
Sec. of State of the U. S.,
Washington. D. C.
The photostats also include the
following letter, received from Mex-
ico and published in the Austin,
Texas, Gazette in February 1840:
Comargo, Tamaulipas,
Feb. 6th, 1840.
“To the Editor of the Austin, Texas,
Gaxettc.
“Sir: I was, formerly, a citizen
of the United States, and have been
living in Mexico for 17 years. My
business in this country it such,
and has been, as to require me to
travel much from place to place. I
was, not long since, at a mining
district in Mexico, in the neighbor-
this by a Mexican, going from here
to Bastrop and Austin. I have di-j
rected him to give it to any Ameri-
can he saw in either place, who
would know where to send it.”
“In great haste, I am. Your hum-
ble servant,
WM. C: WHITE."
“You eat like an actor. Dad, not a musician!’'
WHY HE OBJECTED
Boy: “What is it your father sees
in me to object to, darling?”
Girl: “He doesn’t see anything in
you, Charles. That’ why he objects.”
A FLAVOR
ITS OWN THAI
MllllONS PREFIR
-As they whirled away, Felix
noted Ann in serious conversa-
tion with Dr. Forrest. “You
know I—1 juai’couldn’t get mar-
ried in style now,” she was say-
ing,” because somehow that
would be adding to Mickey’s de-
feat 1 j— Do you know what I
mean?” k
“Ye — es—” answered the
doctor, hesitantly, “certainly.
But don’t forget that’s all done
and over iviflh now. The only *
direction you face now is the
future!” At the moment Kay
arrived v ith one of her half-in-
fun-hslf-in-carne't hints that
she was in need of a doctor’s
care—which, after all, was not
so far from the truth.
Thea was piloting a bevy of
Buttery females over her new
heu.-e, and Ben, who always in-
sisted in being in on things, ar-
rived at tha moment when Thea
was opening the door to the
newly-furnished nursery.
Thrown into hysterical delight
by the belief that he was soon
to be a proud papa—he was in
the depths when Them explained
the.t she was simply negotiating
for the adoption of a baby.
In answer to the clamoring of
the guests Felix seated himself
at the piano and played the com-
position which had won him the
big award the year before. After
the applause had ended—Ann
sauntered to the piano, aat
down, and nonchalantly struck
a few chords. They were the
opening bars of Mickey’s un-
finished composition. Then, X
strangely absorbed expression
on her face, she launched into
Die piece.
"Beautiful t” exclaimed a
guest, "la it by Felix, too?”
“No, Felix didn’t write It...”
Ann said, with an air of un-
natural calm that was almost
frightening. “It isn’t even a
aong— it’s only got a middle—
no beginning, no end, and it
didn’t win a prise — Mickey,
Bordon wrote it, what there is
of it—" The music reached a
crescendo. “I’m only playing
now because thia ia a special oc-
casion! — Listen to itl Stays
with you, doesn’t it?—but Mickey
was no genius—the only thing
he ever did that came near gen-
ius was to die young!” For th*
first time her voice roes higher.
“What do you say? Let’s give
three few bars a name— Let’s
five R a prize of our own —
Let’s dedicate it to somebody ” '
Felix, pals with emotion, -
maw forward, sad see ted hiaa-
setf on the beach beald* her. “Be-
fore yea dedicate it to anyone,”
sion was broken.
The next day Thea went t»
the city to get the adopted baby
—a -prospect-which the ehildleas
Ernest and Emma contemplated
wistfully. Ben, lonely in his big
house urged Felix to make use
of the grand piano for work on
his composition — a labor of
love, by the way, which was t«
be a surprise for Ann. Felix ac-
cepted and when he got back te
the Lempe in the evening—he
found Ann in her room and in
a rinte of greit excitement. Thr
head of the concert company
had telephoned from the city.
He t’-rred Felix to come at oner
to begin rehearsals for his ex-
tended tour through Central
America. Felix said he would
not go—positively refused to
go.
“But he says another chance
lik* thia might not come in ten
years,” Ann pleaded, "And I
want you to go! It’s your career
—and it’s not your baby!"
Felix stared st her, too hurt to
speak. Her apology took the
form of self reproach. There was
something almost delirious in
her voice. "Run, Felix—” ahe
said, "Run for your life. I’m a
jinx to my men—Mickey threw
awpy his life—and you—you’re
throwing away everything you’ve
worked for... I...”
"There’s nothing I’ve worked
for harder than you, Ann ...”
he said sadly “and if you send
me away now... I have failed 1”
“Nevertheless I’m sending you
away. I want you to go.”
“Mickey took you away from
me once ... he’s taking you away
from me again ...”
"Why can’t you aae I don’t
want you around me...” she
went on, dose to hysteria, “I
don’t want anyone around me!
If you love me, Felix ... you’ll
...go!”
"I know when I’m licked. So
long, Ann ... Don’t worry...”
It was only when ahe knew by
the click of the front gate that
Felix was gone that ah* realised
what she had done.
A moment after ahe was ery-
iag her heart out on the comfort-
ing shoulder of Emma, as te*
had don* since little girl days.
"Thera’s only one train ha eouM
taka,” said Aunt Etta “Well gut
It if R’a lata, which R always
la,” ‘'It’ll help him, poor bog,*
said Emma “to know that tea
wife loves him...»
...Roc* Adam’s rite*? Fte*
wag reading down tha lend,
tearing th* three toward tea
station. Tha train, Aar on**, hat
teen or trine.
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