Burke Trammel was born 1810 in Ireland. He took part in the Siege of Béxar. He later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. William R. Carey’s artillery company. Trammel died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.

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Gordon C. Jennings was born 1780 in Connecticut. He took part in the Siege of Béxar as a corporal in Capt. William R. Carey’s artillery company. Jennings was the Alamo’s oldest defender at age fifty-six. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. His brother, Charles B. Jennings, died in the Goliad Massacre.

Andrés Nava was born 1810 in Texas. He was one of a group of native Texans who enlisted for six months service under the command of Juan N. Seguín. He took part in the Siege of Béxar and served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Seguín’s company. Nava died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Demasio de los Reyes, who had been ordered into the Alamo to remove bodies to be burned, recognized Nava’s body in the ruins and later swore to this fact. Nava’s half-brother, Carmel Gonzara, and his sister, Dorotea Muñís, swore in an application for a grant of land that Nava died at the Alamo. On March 25, 1861, a note was placed in their file stating that they were too poor to carry the claim any further.

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Robert E. Cochran was born 1810 in New Hampshire. He took part in the Siege of Béxar and later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. William R. Carey’s artillery company. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Cochran County is named in his honor.

Joseph Rutherford was born 1798 in Kentucky. He took part in the Siege of Béxar and later served in the Alamo garrison as a member of Capt. William R. Carey’s artillery company. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.