The San Francisco call. [volume], March 04, 1900, Image 1

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Sunday Call
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
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t BMinni **•»«. Bh« Im or. 9 of the four. «r fir* p«neß» new aSr*
who vcr* ta th« ridnity of the Alamo at to* time of th* cits* »< th*
Texan* ther*. ¦ She was " born in ISIB, and j was almost twenty y**» oil
when th* Alain*. wa« beslVged, and .Is nearly elfhty-two yean of are
bow. ih* la a marvtlously brisk old lady, and her memory U slnsularly
•l«ar. ". • tTW'-^l"?-' . ¦¦¦ ' '•' •¦:¦¦.¦•¦• '-^"X, ; ;
fih* knew Dary . Crockett and. General JturWd* well, and wh« sh«
was th* brid* of a prosperous younr Mexican; Oeaeral Santa Anna -wu
a gmest at her horn* on several occasions. ? : >"¦:/
;-."I was married at Vera Crua 1h.1533» when I was seventeen years old."
¦aid Senora Rianez.the other day. lntellinsr of her memory of th* fright
ful scenes at the siege of the Alamo. . "In ISCS'my husband believed that
he could 'make more money for his growing family : by going north of th*
Rio Grande and engaging In the" cattle business.;" "We reached San Antonl9
In May, 1535, having traveled all the .way. from Vent Crux in a rickety
old ox team wagon. There were thousands -,of : squar* miles of fertll*
land lying *verywher* in Texas in those day% and It was all fre* t»
any o"n*~who wanted a farm'of iSTor 200 acres. For a year my hu»b»nl
traveled about Texas among tt9 Mexican rancherofc I stayed with my
two chllUren In- the j little : settlemei]*. of San Aatianl*. Tber* was rery
little there then outside of the charch and mission, but that wu b«tt**
than any other community in that region.' ¦¦ ' :'•_,: . . :-\ :
¦ "The war between the Americans'and" Mexican* was brooding through
out 1835; and we Mexicans who did not want trouble and preferred t»
contmuea oaraje >w»,
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1) Wh*o ti»« **»?• mtl« (Ml ((tmsf •*on»e.ne*d *y <Hn*r»l
f*\ tea KMUtoa whJpp*4 th» M«xlc&* *rmy . «^*r. Bant*. Anna , at ,
A A faa Jactnt* their wi* err was 'TUmimbw fth* Alamo." Those
. ¦*¦ word* rallied tb* Texant t* rtetoir-wfc«r*d*feat;Seemed well-nigh
/certain. Th* hardy riflemen remembered," and- 'they.. ln •part re-
T*s»*d th* slaughter of their comrades lnth* ©Id ? *tdn* .building ,-whwi,.
V ceatury ***©r*. th» rtasd>«aa xaonka - chaot*4. tX* ieryicw U th»
Eeyeral Or^kt ¦with L»onlda» at Tlitnnopyla* winived to b» th* llr
trr nionuinenta o< heroltm «raenc th» youth of Sparta., but not a man
teaeiced ellv» In tb« battU of the Alamo. Of the 178 Texans who wlth-
Btbbd the army of Banta Anna for twelve daya^ not one escaped to be
fconbr?a and p*r.s!oaed and pointed out with reverent pride as a hero
who Toupht with Travis. Bowie and Crockett In/ the old Mission Church.
:.': ;;; ¦'¦'¦AmS.r.V'the'reßldepU of Santa Barbara, Coynt^. In' California, is Senora
X^ilaJie Rrarea— aa «I 4 EpaJnlah vtou . who .lift* oa partial Charity in
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