to bear him company to the shades. The heroic Crockett,
knowing that death was inevitable, struck down his enemies until,
when his own dead body was found, it was in the centre of a circling
heap of dead Mexicans. Colonel Bowie was lying on his bed in the
last stage of consumption; but as the enemy rushed into his room, he
shot and killed seven of the foe before he, himself, was killed.
The details of the horrid massacre need not be repeated
here, even if they could be given. The bodies of the Texans were
collected into heaps and burned. A year later Colonel John N.
Seguin superintended the collection and proper interment of the
bones of these heroes.
As you enter the capitol at Austin, you see a monument
bearing this inscription: "Thermopylae had its messenger of defeat.
The Alamo had none."
Thus died the brilliant and the brave Colonel William
Barrett Travis. Bonham and Bowie, sons of Edgefield as well as
Travis, went with him on the same dark journey. And Crockett was
not far away. In addition to Bonham and Travis, the five South Carolina natives who died at the Alamo were: Lemuel Crawford, George Neggan, Edward Nelson, George Nelson, and Cleveland Kinlock Simmons. Though a Georgian, Fannin also had a connection to our state. Though he was born and reared in Georgia, he
