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 Jesse B. Bowman
N 33° 55.352 W 095° 08.246
15S E 302416 N 3755624
One of four Texas Historical Markers in Sam Houston Park, northwest of Blakeney on FM 410/Red River County Road 2381. This one pays homage to Jesse B. Bowman, who had lived in this area and who died at the Alamo.
Waymark Code: WMNTC9
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/30/2015
Views: 2
Marker Number: 12166
Marker Text:
Alamo defender Jesse B. Bowman was born in Tennessee about 1785. By 1811 he was living in Illinois where his son Joseph T. Bowman was born that year. Bowman and his family settled in Ouichita County, Arkansas, until it became more populated and they moved to Hempstead County. In the 1830s Jesse B. Bowman and his family moved with his brother and other family members to this area of Texas, where they soon qualified for a league and labor of land. On February 23, 1836, Bowman answered the roll call at the Alamo garrison in Bexar. He was listed as a private and permanent volunteer under the command of Jim Bowie. On March 6, Jesse Bowman lost his life at the fall of the Alamo. His body and those of the other Alamo defenders were burned by the Mexican Army under General Santa Anna. (1999)
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