Thomas Alley served as a captain in the army of Texan volunteers at the siege of Bexar in 1835.
The Siege of Béxar Descendants
The Soldiers and their Descendants
2005 SOBD Meeting
The Siege of Bexar Descendants met for their 20th anniversary, on the 170th anniversary of the Siege of Bexar, at Alamo Hall, the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas December 9-11, 2005. THE SIEGE OF BEXAR DESCENDANTS “The Storming of San Antonio”December 5-10, 1835 HOWDY MEMBERS AND GUESTS Welcome to San Antonio and BexarTo CELEBRATEOur20th ANNIVERSARY 12/9/05 […]
Castoñon, Luis Zertuche
Luis Zertuche Castañon was born on March 18, 1820, to Jesus Castañon, a soldier stationed in Bexar, and Guadalupe Zertuche Castañon. According to 1830 census records, Luis spent his early years at San Jose Mission in San Antonio playing alongside his brother Pedro and sister Maria. Other siblings would come later. By age thirteen he […]
R.K. Sawyer says
Thesis: There are either two different early Texas Thomas Alley’s, or Thomas Valentine Alley (Thomas “One”) did NOT die in the 1820s. Even Walter Prescott Webb in the Handbook of Texas merged the two Thomas’s. Thomas Alley “Two” was too important to just disappear after 1836, yet he seems to!
Thomas Alley “One.” History has it that Thomas V. drowned in the Brazos on his horse during a skirmish with Indians [spring of 1824].
Thomas Alley “Two.” A Thomas Alley (Thomas Two) received a quarter league in Matagorda County in 1827 by John Crier.
Among the first of the Texans to arrive for the Gonzales skirmish was Captain Thomas Alley, with a small detachment from the Colorado River. The year was 1835.
The list of volunteers under the command of Edward Burleson, Commander-in-chief, who volunteered to remain at Bexar during the siege on November 24, 1835 included the Thomas of interest, and a William, and a Captain John Alley .