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Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson (c. 1814– October 7, 1883) and her infant daughter, Angelina, were among the few American survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. Her husband, Almaron Dickinson , and 185 other Texian defenders were killed by the Mexican Army .
Mar 26, 2010 · Susannah Dickinson, wife of Captain Almaron Dickinson, provided an eyewitness account of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo as one of its few survivors.
Portrait of Susanna Dickinson, photographer unknown. Susanna Wilkerson was born in Tennessee around 1814. On May 24, 1829, Susanna married Almaron Dickinson in Bolivar, Tennessee. The couple migrated to Texas in 1830, arriving in Gonzales on February 20, 1831.
Apr 30, 2022 · Susanna Dickinson probably followed the army eastward in company with the other Gonzales women. Illiterate, without family, and only twenty-two years old, she petitioned the government meeting at Columbia in October 1836 for a donation, but the proposed $500 was not awarded.
Susanna Dickinson was one of the few people who survived the famous battle of the Alamo in 1836. She was charged with telling Sam Houston, the commander of the Texan army, about the defeat at the Alamo.
Oct 31, 2015 · The woman, Susanna Dickinson, was the wife of Alamo defender Almaron Dickinson. She and her baby were hiding in the Alamo's chapel when Mexican troops bayoneted her husband and took...
Sep 6, 2021 · Susanna Dickinson’s life is full of courage and resilience. She is one of the few survivors from the Battle of the Alamo.
Susanna and Almeron Dickinson arrived in the Green DeWitt Colony on February 20th, 1831, in the town of Gonzales where, as a married man, Almeron was granted one league of land in what is now Caldwell County, as well as the
Far more than just the “Survivor of the Alamo”, Susanna Dickinson’s life spanned the entirety of early Anglo Texas: colonial pioneering, revolution, frontier statehood, and urbanization. She embodied the experience of real Texas women who navigated the stark challenges of those times.
Nov 22, 2019 · A dozen miles out on the road to San Antonio the trio had encountered a weary band of Alamo refugees—Susanna Dickinson, the widow of artilleryman Almeron Dickinson, carrying the couple’s infant daughter, Angelina; Joe, the teen slave of Alamo co-commander Lt. Col. William Barret Travis; and Ben Harris, Mexican army Colonel Juan ...
