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
Bull, Pleasant Marshall
Pleasant Marshall Bull was born Feb. 18, 1808 in Grainger County Tennessee to John Valentine Bull and Fetna Bean. He came to Texas to acquire land, arriving in 1831 and settling in Brazoria, Austin Colony. He was a veteran of the Battle of Concepcion and the Battle of Bexar and is on the muster roll […]
Moore, Col. John Henry
Colonel Moore was elected Colonel Commandant of the Army of Texas on October 11, 1835 in Gonzales, the same day Stephen F. Austin was elected Commander in Chief and Edward Burleson, Lieutenant Colonel. Moore resigned his office on November 6th in Bexar and Ed Burleson was elected to replace him on November 7th. MOORE, JOHN […]
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 .