DAY, FREEMAN H. K. (1806-1836). Freeman Day, Alamo defender, was born in 1806. He took part in the siege of Bexar and later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. Robert Whiteqv's Infantry company, the Bexar Guards. Day died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976 Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986 Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990 John H. Jenkins, ed., The Papers of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (10 vols., Austin: Presidial Press, 1973).
