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In August, 1838, Andrew J. Sowell was among the 33 signers of the charter for Seguin, one of the first towns established after Texas won independence. Thirty of the founders were listed on the 1839 Muster Roll of
Captain Matthew Caldwell's unit of Texas Rangers originally from Gonzales. After Texas
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In 1841, on the first Alamo monument designed by
William B. Nangle, Andrew Jackson Sowell was honored as a defender of the Alamo. Sowell had left San Antonio shortly before the fall of the Alamo, and at first it was believed that he had died there. In his later years, Sowell recalled that his name
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to buy cattle and supplies for the Alamo garrison. But upon their return to San
Antonio, they were not able to enter as the Alamo was surrounded by Santa Anna's army. From the Alamo they headed to Gonzales, where Sowell assisted the
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Andrew
Jackson Sowell was born in Davidson County, Tennessee in June 1815. His family traveled from Tennessee to Missouri, and then moved to Texas. His father John Newton Sowell and family settled in
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and his
Mexican troops sent to retrieve it. His father had been one of the "Old Eighteen", defending the colony's right to keep the cannon. This incident was the first shot fired in the
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Sowell died in Seguin, Texas on
January 4, 1883, and is buried some miles east of town in the Rogers-Mofield Cemetery, north of U.S. Route 90 Alternate (Texas) near Darst Creek, Texas.
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became a state, and
Guadalupe County was created, the second meeting of the Commissioners Court ordered that a road to Bastrop be laid out by Sowell and three others.
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had once been inscribed among the martyrs, and he claimed to be the only man to live—and see his name among those who died at the Alamo.
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were sent out as couriers and foragers. They went as far as
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and became the first Anglo-Americans to successfully raise
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Alamo Defenders, A Genealogy: The People and Their Words
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Todish, Timothy J.; Todish, Terry; Spring, Ted (1998).
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In February, 1836 Sowell volunteered again during the
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967:: San San Jacinto Museum of History.
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214:In 1835, Sowell fought in the
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