David Davie CROCKETT, DEFENDER ALAMO TEXAS

                   David was the fifth son of his parents. He was described as afrontiersman,
raconteur and Congressman from Tennessee to the United States House of
Representatives. He served as both a Sargeant and then later as aColonel in
the Tennessee Militia.
He is described as having been, born on the banks of the NolichuckeyRiver,
near the mouth of Limestone Creek, Tennessee. It is located about 31/2
miles off Highway 11E, near Limestone, Tennessee (Tennessee StatePark).
He is also described as having reared his (step-children) as hisown.
There are two stories about his death, one is that he died during thesiege,
the other was that David Crockett actually survived the Battle of theAlamo
wherein he was captured, along with 5 others, following the battle andwas
summarily executed, with them, by Mexican troops under the orders of
Generalisimo Santa Anna. My resources appear to favor the secondscenario, in
that he was executed.(JFN,1997)
His body was cremated on a huge funeral pyre, along with the bodies ofthe
other Defenders of the Alamo.
Sources include, but are not limited to;
Genealogies of Virginia Families II, CDROM, Pages 387-391, 461-462.
See also;
Alamo Defenders, A Genealogy, The People and their Words, by BillGroneman
(1990) Eakin Press, ISBN 0-89015-757-X, Pages 26-29.