Where is Clara Driscoll buried?

Clara Driscoll was buried in Masonic Cemetery, one of San Antonio's historic cemeteries. Her family erected a large mausoleum in her memory where visitors can still learn about this important figure in the preservation of Texas history. Clara Driscoll's mausoleum stands in the Masonic Cemetery today.



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Mary's Texas, on April 2, 1881; died in Corpus Christi, Texas, on July 17, 1945; younger of two children and only daughter of Robert (a millionaire rancher and businessman) and Julia (Fox) Driscoll; attended private schools in Texas and New York City and the Chateau Dieudonne, a French convent near Paris; married Henry ...

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Born in 1881, Clara was the granddaughter of Daniel O'Driscoll, a soldier in Sam Houston's army, and grew up on Palo Alto Ranch. It was only natural that she would grow up to have a love for Texas and its people.

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Driscoll, Clara (1881–1945). Clara Driscoll, businesswoman, philanthropist, and historic preservationist, was born on April 2, 1881, to Robert and Julia (Fox) Driscoll in St. Mary's, Texas, near the site of present Bayside.

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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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Following the Battle of the Alamo and the Goliad Massacre, the Mexican troops burned the bodies of the slain Texans. Following the battle of San Jacinto, Sam Houston made no provisions to dispose of the Mexicans troops killed in the battle and the corpses remained where they lay.

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