Did Davey Crockett die at the Alamo?

[FlaminCrow]

Since Dickerson placed him at the low wall and we have the story of Crockett being abused by Santa Anna we have what seems to be a contradiction. My personal opinion is someone was captured and hoped to get himself out of a jam claimed to be Crockett
What did Crockett look like? I’ve seen paintings of him and can identify him from those paintings, however if he showed up at an event I doubt I would recognize him. It’s unlikely Santa Anna or any Mexican would be able to recognize him

I completely agree with your statement.
I believe it was Bowies or Travis’ servant, ( it’s been too long), that claimed he saw Crockett lying there dead. That would have been the one person who would have recognized him.

 

[Trev]

I think that if Crockett had lived, he himself would have made a big noise about it. Too much of a politician to have it kept quiet.

 

[SOLANCO]

Heap of folks never accepted what Garrett said.

This is the first time I heard that Davey didn't die at the Alamo.
We likely never will know what happened.

So much of our mainstream history is garbage.

Mebbe so. But I am pretty sure they are both dead as of January 2025.

 

[Eterry]

I agree with you on Billy the Kid.

I read where DNA proved Brushy Bill was not William Bonney.

 

[Eterry]

Another thing...I read a lengthy article about the Alamo and General Coz was quoted many times, saying how they had captured Crockett and Coz asked Santa Anna, who was related to him, to spare Crockett life due to him being a US Senator. But SA didn't want to hear it, and orders him bayoneted by soldiers.
I will look for the book.

 

[Eutycus]

Jose Enrique De La Pena, Lieutenant in the Mexican Army, kept a diary or daily journey. In it he claims to have been present when 6 or 7 captive survivors were brought in. One was supposedly Davy Crockett. They were hacked to death by swords used by young officers when they were reminded of the "No Quarter" order. Another myth? Who knows?

 

[Colonial Boy]

This has jogged the memory and I remember reading an account by a nephew of Jesse James who claimed that there was an old man in hospital who contacted him and claimed to be the outlaw.
He was sceptical but agreed to meet him.
He said that the old man recounted incidents that only he and Jesse could have known about, little things like fishing together etc, and that the old man had exactly the same wound scars as Jesse was known to have.
He concluded that Jesse’s death was a put up job involving the State Governor etc., etc providing Jesse disappeared.
The fact that sympathetic friends of Jesse never shot Ford was also mentioned.

Anyone else remember this article?