Susanna dickinson birth and death.
Susanna Dickinson
Survivor of the Battle of the Alamo (1814-1883)
Susanna Wilkerson Dickinson (c. 1814 – October 7, 1883) and her infant daughter, Angelina, were among the few American survivors of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution.
Her husband, Almaron Dickinson, and 185 other Texian defenders were killed by the Mexican Army.
Susanna dickinson character traits
Early life
Susanna was born c. 1814 in Williamson County, Tennessee, and apparently never learned to read or write. She married Almaron Dickinson on May 24, 1829, when she was 15 years old. After acquiring land along the San Marcos River, the couple became DeWitt Colonists two years later.
The Dickinsons then constructed a blacksmith shop there and made investments in fellow colonist George Kimbell's Gonzales hat business.
Texas Revolution
As the Mexican government increasingly abandoned its federalist structure in favor of a more centralized government, Almaron Dickinson became one of the early pr