Who is erastus deaf smith

It was the first cemetery in San Antonio; it no longer exists. About Lost Texas Roads. Sign in. Log into your account. Password recovery. The Revolution Because he was married to a Tejana, Smith had no desire to declare his allegiance to either side in the early days of the Texas Revolution. Republic of Texas five dollar note. Susanna Dickinson. The Gonzales Road in the Texas Revolution.

Deaf Smith Oak — R. The Old Gonzales Road. Meanwhile, in order to cut off the Mexicans' escape in case General Houston's troops were successful in defeating them, Captain Smith suggested that an important bridge that had been used by the enemy should be torn down. General Houston agreed. He told Smith to take a group of men armed with axes and do the job. Then, Houston and Texans made a surprise attack on the 1, resting Mexican soldiers. General Santa Anna tried to escape. Wearing only red slippers and a blue dressing gown, he jumped onto a horse and galloped off in the direction of the bridge.

But because the bridge was gone, his escape plans were ruined, and he was captured the next day. During the Battle of San Jacinto, Smith rode back and forth across the field behind the Texans waving his axe to let them know that the bridge was destroyed. He called to the fighters: "The bridge is down! They can't get away! Victory or death!

Erastus Smith was 49 years old at the time of the Battle of San Jacinto. He died about a year and a half later, on November 30, , at the age of Gallaudet University is a federally chartered private and premier university for the deaf and hard of hearing since Request Info.

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While on top of the Veramendi House, December 5th, he was wounded, at the time the valiant Benjamin R. Milam was killed in the Veramendi yard. Upon the reorganization of the army under General Sam Houston at Gonzales in March, , Smith was assigned to the Cavalry Corps and put in command of recruits.

While near Harrisburg he captured a courier with important dispatches to Santa Anna, disclosing the whereabouts of Santa Anna and his army. On the morning of April 21st, he destroyed the bridge over Vince's Bayou, and when the battle opened on that memorable day, he fought gallantly. After the battle he was sent by General Houston to overtake General Filisola and deliver to him orders from Santa Anna to retreat with his men from Texas soil.

After the fall of Bexar in , Smith and his family moved to Columbia to live. While no longer connected with the Army, he was given permission to raise and command a company of rangers, using his own judgment as to where and how he should operate.

On February 17, , with twenty men under him, he fought a battle on a creek five miles from Laredo with a force of Mexicans superior in number. In his official report of the engagement, he stated that ten of the enemy had been killed and as many more wounded, and forty of their horses captured. Two Texans were wounded and none were killed. Smith stated that his object was "to raise the flag of Independence on the spire of the Catholic Church at Laredo.

He selected the one owned by Ramon Musquiz situated on the north east corner of main square, now called Main Plaza, and within less than a block of the Veramendi House where Bowie won his bride and where Milam fell on December 7, In a patriotic organization placed a marker on the building standing on the site of the old Musquiz home with the following inscription on it: Site of Governor Musquiz' residence.

Here the women and children survivors of the Alamo Massacre were brought on March 6, Possibly the markers were not aware of the fact that the Musquiz house had been presented to Deaf Smith by the Texas Government. The location of the property is definitely established in deeds signed by Simona Smith Fisk and Gertrude Smith Tarin, daughters of Erastus, by which they disposed of their claimed interest in the estate.

Fisk and Simona Fisk, his wife, in consideration of the sum of Six hundred and Sixty six dollars and Sixty seven cents to the said Simona Fisk paid by D. Cook and A. Lockwood of said County the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained, sold , released and confirmed and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, release and confirm unto C.

Lockwood, their heirs and assigns forever all the estate right title, interest and claim of the said Simonia Fisk in and to a certain lot and house situated in said county in the City of San Antonio on the corner of the main Public Square and Commerce Street bounded on the north by Commerce Street on the East by a house and lot belonging to the Masonic Lodge, on the west by said public square, it being the same premises formerly owned by Ramon Musquiz and afterwards claimed by the heirs of Erastus Smith, deceased, by virtue of an Act of Congress of the Republic of Texas entitled "An Act for the relief of Erastus Smith", approved November 11th, , the portion of said premises claimed and hereby conveyed by the said Simona Fisk being an undivided third part of the same inherited from her father Erastus Smith.

Together with all and singular the rights, members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in anywise incident or appertaining and assigns forever free and forever discharges of all and every claim of the said Simona Fisk, her heirs, executors or administrators of the same or any part thereof. In witness whereof the said James N. Fisk and Simona Fisk, his wife, have hereunto set their hands and scrawls for seal this thirtieth day of October A.

Sealed and delivered in the presence of James N. Erastus Smith had without a doubt selected the Musquiz residence as his but had failed to secure a deed to it from the Republic and as a consequence the intended gift was never in reality made.