Where are Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie buried?

I never realized that the remains of the men who lost their lives defending the Alamo were in a tomb at the San Fernando Cathedral.... Yes, David Crocket and Jim Bowie are buried there! It's one of the most beautiful Cathedrals in the United States... approachable, accessible and very photogenic...



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Antonio López de Santa Anna ordered the defenders' bodies burned on three large pyres near the mission, according to the official Alamo website. One defender, Gregorio Esparza, was granted a traditional burial because his brother was granted permission to retrieve his body.

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The three bodies, believed to belong to a young adult, infant, and adult, were discovered in the Monks Burial Room and the Nave of Alamo Church, in San Antonio, the Texas General Land Office said in a statement Friday.

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SHE BECAME AN INSTANT HEROINE by surviving the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Susanna Dickinson was only 21 and the mother of a baby daughter when she sought shelter inside the walls of the mission-turned-fort, where her husband, Almeron, captained the artillery.

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As the archaeologists inched closer and closer to the irregularities picked up by radar, the discoveries they'd already made gave them hope. But optimism soon turned to disappointment: they found no sign of the treasure. Yet some remain convinced that the gold and silver still exists somewhere deep beneath the Alamo.

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