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Future Alamo defender and survivor elope
On this day in 1829, Almaron Dickinson eloped with Susanna Wilkerson.
Dickinson, a native of Pennsylvania, was born around 1800 and later
moved to the area of Bolivar, Tennessee, where he met Wilkerson, who was
born in that state in 1814. The couple moved to Gonzales, Texas, in 1831
and had a daughter, Angelina Dickinson, in 1834. As a colonist in Green
DeWitt's colony, Dickinson received a league of land on the San Marcos
River. He participated in the battle of Gonzales in 1835 and
distinguished himself as a lieutenant of artillery at the siege of
Bexar; at the battle of the Alamo he was the captain in charge of
artillery. Although he died at the Alamo, his wife and child survived;
legend says Susanna displayed her husband's Masonic apron to a Mexican
general in a plea for help. General Santa Anna sent Susanna and her
daughter to Sam Houston with a letter of warning dated March 7. Susanna
married four more times before her death in 1883.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- DICKINSON, ALMARON
- DICKINSON, SUSANNA WILKERSON
- DEWITT'S COLONY
- ALAMO, BATTLE OF THE
- ALAMO NONCOMBATANTS
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