The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1900, Page 1

SEMNENTER the Alnmef When the brave Nttie fores of Toxans ssmmanded by General Sam Moustom whipped the Mexicas srmy under Santa Anns at San Jacimto their war ery was “Remember ‘the Alamo!” Those worde rallied t Texans te victory whers defeat seemed well-nigh certain. The rifiemen remembered, and they in part re- venged the sisughter of their comrades in the old:stone bullding whers, s ceniury befors, the Franciseea monks chanted the services of the « everal Gresks with Leonidas at Thermop menty of B ® in the J he Death of the Mar- tyred - Jexans ARTYRED T ’("\EQ‘A\’ DEAD AT THE FogT i o Eye- itnes Now - Luwing in Janta Barbara. XA\N & mean mMrie adsbe She is one of the four or five persons now allve whe were fa the vicinity of the Alame at the time of the siege of the Texans there. She was born in 1816, and was almost twenty years old when the Alame was besieged, and is nearly eighty-two years of age now. Bhe is & marvelously brisk old lady, and her memory ls singularly elenr. Bhe knew Davy Crockett and General Iturbide well, and whes she was the bride of a prosperous young Mexican, General Santa Anna was & guest at her home on several occaslons. “] was married at Vera Cruz i when I was sev said Senora Rianez the other d ng of her mem ful scenes at the siege of t he could make more mor Rio Grande and en; in May, 1835, havi old ox team wagon. land lylng everywhers in Texas any one who wanted a farm of 150 o traveled about Texas ng ths two children in- the little ‘sett] of San Antenie. There was very little thers then outside of ¢ and mission, but that was Detter than any other community in tha ion. «The war between thé Americans and Mexicans was brooding through- out 1825, and we Mexicans Who did rot want trouble and preferred te tinued on Page Two. — = T % ALTARS