John Hitchard was with Mexia at Tampico, and came to Westover's Company as one of Allen's men. The orthography of his name, on the several rolls, is variously "Hilchard," "Hitchard" and "Hitcham." All agree, however, that the soldier who bore it perished in the general massacre of March 27, 1836.
 

Andrew J. Hitchcock was born at Columbus, Georgia, Feb. 21, 1814, and burned to death at Denton, Texas, Aug. 25, 1887. He came to Texas with Captain Wadsworth's Company, and was one of its two members who signed the Convention Memorial at Refugio in February, 1836. He was one of sixteen members of Col. Ward's Command who were detailed by the enemy at Victoria, on March 23, 1836, to build a boat, all of whom subsequently escaped, and he was honorably discharged, June 2, 1836, by Mirabeau B. Lamar, Secretary of War

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