1836, Telegraph & Texas Register roll of Fannin's men with a letter in which he says:

"Accompanying this note you will please find a roll of Colonel Fannin's command, which I look upon as correct ... I can refer you to only a few survivors that I know to be living; General Samuel G. Hardaway, of Bullock's Company, now living in Montgomery City, Ala.; Thomas J. Smith, Richmond, Texas; A. J. Hitchcock, Shreveport, Louisiana; and J. P. Trezevant, of Carroll Parish, Louisiana."   [Texas Almanac, 1860, p. 82.]

It will be noted that Kennymore approved the roll, which he transmitted, as being correct. That roll listed Hitchcock and himself as among Fannin's men spared as laborers; and Kennymore could hardly have overlooked a mistake in so listing Hitchcock's name, for he had not only been a member of the same company with him, and a fellow prisoner in 1835-36, but returned to Texas with him in 1837, and noted specially that Hitchcock was living, in 1859, and was then a resident of Shreveport, Louisiana. Kennymore's letter and accompanying copy of the Telegraph & Texas Register roll of Fannin's men were published in the Texas Alamanac for 1860; and no question at all was then made about the correctness of that roll insofar as Hitchcock was concerned.

Another of Ward's sixteen men detained at Victoria on March 23, 1836, to build a boat, was Thomas J. Smith, of Bullock's Company, who is also mentioned by Kennymore as one of the survivors of Fannin's command. Smith died at Richmond, in 1899. John Henry Brown, in his History of Texas, Vol. I, p. 628, has the following note: