Forgotten cemetery downtown could reveal clues about mysteries of Alamo pyres, burials
Clinton McKenzie, project archeologist at the University of Texas at San Antonio, was lead author of a recent report that seeks to provide the most current and comprehensive information to date on burials associated with the Alamo and Mission San Antonio de Valero.SAN ANTONIO — Archaeologists believe they’ve identified an old, forgotten cemetery downtown that could uncover clues about one of the Alamo’s great mysteries: where the bodies from the 1836 battle are buried.
But experts who studied 53 witness accounts and data related to the Alamo pyres or burials now contend that amid difficulty identifying the dead, some Mexican troops were likely burned, and some fallen combatants may have been hastily interred at or near the mission-fort.“Several of those narratives mention disposal of dead from both sides in trenches as well as the irrigation ditches,” the report states.
Through deed records, Hindes and City Archaeologist Matt Elverson identified an “undocumented cemetery” in the area of the Market/Bowie Street intersection that could reveal more information. In a separate account published in 1906, City Clerk August Beisenbach recalled seeing burnt remnants from the Alamo pyres removed in 1856 and reinterred at the Odd Fellows site, along with the remains of Capt. Robert Gillespie and Capt. Samuel Walker, both killed in the Mexican-American War.
“We did encounter quite a bit of ashy soil and very small bone fragments. What that represented, I am not saying one way or another,” she said.
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