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Sion Record Bostick was a member of the party of young Texans who captured the escaping Mexican General Santa Anna after the Battle of San Jacinto during the Texas War for Independence. He migrated from Alabama in 1828 and served in the Texas army at Gonzales and Bexar (San Antonio) in 1835, at San Jacinto in 1836, and in the 1840 stand against Comanches at Plum Creek. He was an American soldier in the Mexican War in 1846 and later a Confederate in Hood's Brigade in the Civil War in the 1860s. He married Susan Townsend and, after her death, Mary Indiana Rhodes, had several children, became a leader in veterans' reunions, and is buried in San Saba Cemetery.
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San Saba, Texas · United States
