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Old 04-21-2021, 12:45 PM   #1
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Happy San Jacinto Day!!

Thanks to 5th great grandpa James Cole III for being there. Special thanks to cousin David Miles Cole for being 1 of the 5 that brought Santa Anna back to camp not knowing who he was.
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Old 04-21-2021, 12:51 PM   #2
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Thanks to 5th great grandpa James Cole III for being there. Special thanks to cousin David Miles Cole for being 1 of the 5 that brought Santa Anna back to camp not knowing who he was.
There was a Townsend in that bunch too... one of the five Townsend brothers that fought for Texas Independence
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Old 04-21-2021, 01:11 PM   #3
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I guess it’s a Texas kind of thing. Never heard of it til today.

I’d have some chili to celebrate but I like beans in mine so I won’t disrespect you guys.
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Old 04-21-2021, 01:24 PM   #4
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Well, we was still stuck in TN figuring out where Davy went. Didn't get here until 1900 so we were a little late.
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Old 04-21-2021, 01:54 PM   #5
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Thanks to 5th great grandpa James Cole III for being there. Special thanks to cousin David Miles Cole for being 1 of the 5 that brought Santa Anna back to camp not knowing who he was.
If only he had remembered to have his men, now prisoners, to NOT salute him if he was taken into custody.
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Old 04-21-2021, 02:47 PM   #6
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^yeah that would have been a good plan but his vanity probably prevented it. I would imagine if the group of 5 would have known who he was he would not have made it back to camp alive. But Sam Houston played it right. Got a treaty signed by Santa Anna that expanded the U.S. into the Rocky Mts. Huge land grab.
Everyday at work I would look over at the San Jacinto monument and think about it.
James Cole III was about 75 years old and thus was assigned to rear guard at Harrisburg. He died the following year so he probably was in pretty bad shape. However he did get a pretty good land bounty for his service that his kids sold.
David Miles Cole married Sydney Yocum a daughter of the outlaw Thomas Yocum of Sour Lake who was hung by citizens. David ranched at Eagle Lake and might have lived near Columbus.
Both good Louisiana men that came to Texas to fight.
Both better men than me.
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Old 04-22-2021, 10:21 AM   #7
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There was a Townsend in that bunch too... one of the five Townsend brothers that fought for Texas Independence
Spencer and Stephen?
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Spencer and Stephen?
If I remember correctly it was Samuel L..

Thomas Roderick Townsend was my 4th great-grandfather on my dad's side.
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If I remember correctly it was Samuel L..

Thomas Roderick Townsend was my 4th great-grandfather on my dad's side.
I saw a Spencer Burton Townsend at San Jacinto and Stephen Townsend at Harrisburg.
Edit...I found several Townsends in the veteran bio section of sanjacinto-museum.org
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Old 04-23-2021, 04:07 PM   #10
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I saw a Spencer Burton Townsend at San Jacinto and Stephen Townsend at Harrisburg.
Edit...I found several Townsends in the veteran bio section of sanjacinto-museum.org
Yep, there were actually 7 Townsend brothers who fought for Texas Independence. Plus, Dillard Cooper (3rd gg grandfather)was at Goliad and Francis Johnson (3rd great grandfather)at the Battle of Bexar, and his brother Lewis Johnson in the Alamo. And Henry Gregg Hudson (3rd great uncle) also at Goliad.
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Sitting in Tom Sawyers RV park, West Memphis, AR., no cable, flipping through OTA stations. Grit is showing THE ALAMO with John Wayne. Pretty hokey old movie. Waiting to see Gov Bill Daniel of Liberty do his cameo. I may have missed it. Him on his white horse Charger. He was a direct descendant of Sam Houston. His brother Price was Texas Governor, Senator, etc. Gov Bill wrote a nice letter of recommendation for our daughter to be admitted to Baylor. I don't think she really needed it as she was a National Merit Scholar but it was a nice gesture.
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Sitting in Tom Sawyers RV park, West Memphis, AR., no cable, flipping through OTA stations. Grit is showing THE ALAMO with John Wayne. Pretty hokey old movie. Waiting to see Gov Bill Daniel of Liberty do his cameo. I may have missed it. Him on his white horse Charger. He was a direct descendant of Sam Houston. His brother Price was Texas Governor, Senator, etc. Gov Bill wrote a nice letter of recommendation for our daughter to be admitted to Baylor. I don't think she really needed it as she was a National Merit Scholar but it was a nice gesture.
I'm sitting in Dawson, Texas watching Grit and the Real Alamo movie also... 😁
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The more of it I watch, the better movie it seems to be.
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I caught a 40 pound river cat sitting on the bank at Tom Sawyer RV park about 5 years ago. We had a fish fry and invited all the other campers to stop over for fried catfish, hushpuppies and coleslaw. Stand with your back to the river, looking toward the levy. That building just to the right of the road out of the park has watermarks just under the windows on the second floor... Those watermarks match the same level marks on all the trees. That's the water level in the campground from the year before I caught that river cat.
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Sitting in Tom Sawyers RV park, West Memphis, AR., no cable, flipping through OTA stations. Grit is showing THE ALAMO with John Wayne. Pretty hokey old movie. Waiting to see Gov Bill Daniel of Liberty do his cameo. I may have missed it. Him on his white horse Charger. He was a direct descendant of Sam Houston. His brother Price was Texas Governor, Senator, etc. Gov Bill wrote a nice letter of recommendation for our daughter to be admitted to Baylor. I don't think she really needed it as she was a National Merit Scholar but it was a nice gesture.
Watching John Wayne's "The Alamo" on Grit right now also!
It may be a hokey movie? It may or may not be anywhere near historically accurate? But as far as entertainment it's a much better movie than some of the other crap on television nowadays.
Survivor, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, whatever that stupid reality series is called that has all these people in a house & filming every second of what goes on as if anyone cared (Big Brother I think it was called) & several of the current weekly series are definitely in the hokey class as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm not watching The Alamo at the moment but I've watched every iteration many times. Gotta go find this Grit; used to be a paper I sold when I was a kid but sounds like it's a TV channel.....
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Grit? Isn’t that something you eat in the morning?
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I caught a 40 pound river cat sitting on the bank at Tom Sawyer RV park about 5 years ago. We had a fish fry and invited all the other campers to stop over for fried catfish, hushpuppies and coleslaw. Stand with your back to the river, looking toward the levy. That building just to the right of the road out of the park has watermarks just under the windows on the second floor... Those watermarks match the same level marks on all the trees. That's the water level in the campground from the year before I caught that river cat.
They have signs on that building now; big white arrows saying "river level".

It is a decent RV park. But the town of West Memphis is depressing. Bring your own food to cook or grill. We ate dinner in one of the nastiest Mexican restaurants I've been in.
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Watching John Wayne's "The Alamo" on Grit right now also!
It may be a hokey movie? It may or may not be anywhere near historically accurate? But as far as entertainment it's a much better movie than some of the other crap on television nowadays.
Survivor, The Bachelor/Bachelorette, whatever that stupid reality series is called that has all these people in a house & filming every second of what goes on as if anyone cared (Big Brother I think it was called) & several of the current weekly series are definitely in the hokey class as far as I'm concerned.
Very true. Besides the stupidity, the language and subject matter can make a sailor blush.
A lot of Texans invested in the making of the Alamo movie. Gov Bill Daniel provided horses and cattle. The McCollough brothers (oilfield services) invested dollars and never saw a return.
I wish someone would make a good movie on Jim Bowie.
For those interested, the book THREE ROADS TO THE ALAMO by William C Davis is great. Basically biographies of Bowie, Travis, and Crockett. Not much on the Alamo battle. Please disregard the story of my ggggrandfather James D Reeves....he sold Bowie some land that he didn't own. Somehow escaped the Bowie knife. LOL
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