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PRECIOUSSO  (View posts) Posted: 30 Jun 2004 4:04PM GMT
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Surnames: GARETT
I JUST CAME ACROSS THE FOLLOWING INFO. AND THOUGHT SOMEONE MIGHT LIKE TO HAVE IT.

GARRETT, JAMES GIRARD (1806-1836). James Girard Garrett, Alamo defender, was born in Tennessee in 1806. He was a resident of Louisiana when he marched to Texas as a member of Capt. Thomas H. Breece'sqv company of New Orleans Greysqv in 1835. Garrett took part in the siege of Bexarqv and later served in the Alamo garrison. He died in the battle of the Alamoqv on March 6, 1836.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990).

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