San Antonio, Texas: Alamo Bodies Burned Nearby
Often-overlooked bronze and marble plaques mark where the corpses of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and the other Alamo casualties were burned in a big bonfire by the victorious Mexicans. Marker was moved; pyre was nearby.
- Address:
- E. Commerce St., San Antonio, TX
- Directions:
- Two blocks south of the Alamo. On the south side of E. Commerce St. midway between Alamo Plaza and Bowie St. The plaques are set into a low wall along the sidewalk, just east of the crosswalk leading across the street to a parking garage.
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Located directly across the street from the parking garage of the shops at Rivercenter. The inscription on the original marble plaque reads:
"On this spot bodies of heroes slain at the Alamo were burned on a funeral pyre. Fragments of the bodies were afterward buried here. This tablet is the gift of relatives of Green B. Jemision and of other friends. - De Zavala Chapter Texas Landmarks Assn."
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