After the battle for the Alamo, did any of the wives or children of Crockett, Bowie or Travis visit the site? Dave Knapp Wilmington, North Carolina Bowie’s young wife, Ursula de Veramendi, and two small children died in a cholera epidemic a little over two years before the battle, in September 1833. Bowie was survived by three brothers and two sisters. Crockett left a wife in Tennessee. It isn’t likely she visited the Alamo. Travis abandoned his wife and children in Alabama in 1831; the


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