My grandma, Rosa Trimble, was a great storyteller. The Trimble’s came to Texas around 1840 and settled around San Antonio. She was an Edwards and one day she gathered us kids around and regaled us with the tale of how an Edwards and a Trimble had died defending the Alamo. I got a lot of mileage out of re-telling it in my grade school
history classes. I probably embellished it a bit.
Fast forward a few years to when I became a western historian and got a chance to learn a few facts about th
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