Susanna Dickerson, the sole American woman to escape, was allowed by Santa Anna to leave for Gonzales after the battle, to tell the demoralizing news of the Alamo’s fall and the death of its defenders. She described her way out of the church, cradling her daughter and limping (she had been wounded in the leg) through pools of blood of the fallen: “As we passed through the enclosed ground in front of the church, I saw heaps of dead and dying. The Texans on an average killed between eight and nine Mexicans each, 182 Texans and 1,600 Mexicans were killed. “I recognized Colonel Crockett lying dead and mutilated between the church and the two story barrack building, and even remember seeing his peculiar cap lying by his side.” …show more content…
years before. The following is from Colonel Edward Stiff’s 1840 book, Texan …show more content…
Ruiz, Mayor of San Antonio de Bexar, was ordered by Santa Anna to identify the bodies of Travis, Bowie and Crockett after the battle. The following was his report concerning the three: “On the north battery of the fortress lay the lifeless body of Col. Travis on the gun-carriage, shot only in the forehead. Toward the west, and in the small fort opposite the city, we found the body of Col. Crockett. Col. Bowie was found dead in his bed, in one of the rooms of the south side.” (Author note: the Ruiz description of the location of Crockett’s body in a “small fort opposite the city” (the ‘city’ is probably the nearby huts of La Villita) could mean the palisaded, fenced area outside the chapel main door which Davy and his “Tennessee boys” defended.)

Bill Groneman, a Texas historian who’s done much research about Crockett’s death, concludes in one of his studies, Death of a Legend: “I think there is enough evidence to place Crockett’s body in the area in front of the Alamo church, to the exclusion of any other