Richardson Perry Cenotaph

Richardson Perry, born in Mississippi in 1817, received this league of land, 4428 acres, on October 10, 1835, as one of the Austin Colonists in one of the final Mexican land grants approved at San Felipe. The first battle of the Texas Revolution had taken place at Gonzales the preceding week. Two months later, Perry was in San Antonio with the Texas Volunteers participating in the Siege of Bexar. He was a member of Captain Carey’s artillery company at the Alamo when it was overtaken by the Mexican Army under Santa Anna, where he died in 1836.

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