Escape from Goliad LbNA #69290
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Add Location| Owner: | Baby Bear  |
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| Plant date: | Oct 9, 2015 |
| Location: | Old Moulton Cemetery |
| City: | Moulton |
| County: | Lavaca |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Silver Eagle |
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| Last found: | Jan 29, 2016 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Oct 13, 2015 |
Difficulty: easy
Distance to letterbox: 100 yards
Great cemetery, though a little tough to find and road is interesting (watch for cows). Here is the story behind the "Escape from Goliad", by Isaac Hamilton:
From the Handbook of Texas. Isaac D. Hamilton (1804-1859), soldier in the Texas Revolution, was a native of Courtland, Alabama, the son of Francis and Mary Hamilton. In 1835 he joined John Shackelford's company of Red Rovers to fight for the independence of Texas from Mexico. He was quartermaster, fifth in the chain of command, with the rank of second sergeant. His company joined James W. Fannin, Jr., at Goliad and fought in the battle of Coleto, after which Fannin surrendered to Gen. José de Urrea. Hamilton was one of four Red Rovers who survived the Goliad Massacre. Seriously wounded and left by his companions, he accomplished, according to historian Harbert Davenport, the "most incredible of all the escapes from the massacre at Goliad," only to be recaptured by Plácido Benavides at Dimmitt's Point and sent to Victoria, where he was again scheduled to be shot. But word came that Sam Houston had defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at San Jacinto. In the confusion that followed in the Mexican camp Hamilton again escaped, with the aid of Francisca de Alavez, the "Angel of Goliad." He eventually made his way back to Courtland, Alabama, recuperated from his ordeal, and returned to Texas. He never regained his health. On February 13, 1858, the Texas legislature approved a measure awarding Hamilton a league of land near the site of present Beaumont as a reward for his services in the revolution. But before the land was surveyed he died at Moulton, Texas, in 1859.
Directions:
Form Mouton and Hwy 95, go west on FM 1680. You will pass cemeteries on the right, but keep going. Turn left on Old Mouton Cemetery road (hard to see, and sign only shown from other direction - so look for back of sign on the right side of road). Go down gravel road, then stay left on dirt road to cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Enter gate, and go straight back to near back of cemetery and look for historic granite grave stone for Isaac. Now go right to his "wife's" (there seems to be some question about this being his wife since he was never married) headstone. On far side base of headstone, near break in stone, box in cavity in front of it.
Hike length: 0.1 miles
Distance to letterbox: 100 yards
Great cemetery, though a little tough to find and road is interesting (watch for cows). Here is the story behind the "Escape from Goliad", by Isaac Hamilton:
From the Handbook of Texas. Isaac D. Hamilton (1804-1859), soldier in the Texas Revolution, was a native of Courtland, Alabama, the son of Francis and Mary Hamilton. In 1835 he joined John Shackelford's company of Red Rovers to fight for the independence of Texas from Mexico. He was quartermaster, fifth in the chain of command, with the rank of second sergeant. His company joined James W. Fannin, Jr., at Goliad and fought in the battle of Coleto, after which Fannin surrendered to Gen. José de Urrea. Hamilton was one of four Red Rovers who survived the Goliad Massacre. Seriously wounded and left by his companions, he accomplished, according to historian Harbert Davenport, the "most incredible of all the escapes from the massacre at Goliad," only to be recaptured by Plácido Benavides at Dimmitt's Point and sent to Victoria, where he was again scheduled to be shot. But word came that Sam Houston had defeated Antonio López de Santa Anna at San Jacinto. In the confusion that followed in the Mexican camp Hamilton again escaped, with the aid of Francisca de Alavez, the "Angel of Goliad." He eventually made his way back to Courtland, Alabama, recuperated from his ordeal, and returned to Texas. He never regained his health. On February 13, 1858, the Texas legislature approved a measure awarding Hamilton a league of land near the site of present Beaumont as a reward for his services in the revolution. But before the land was surveyed he died at Moulton, Texas, in 1859.
Directions:
Form Mouton and Hwy 95, go west on FM 1680. You will pass cemeteries on the right, but keep going. Turn left on Old Mouton Cemetery road (hard to see, and sign only shown from other direction - so look for back of sign on the right side of road). Go down gravel road, then stay left on dirt road to cemetery.
To the Letterbox:
Enter gate, and go straight back to near back of cemetery and look for historic granite grave stone for Isaac. Now go right to his "wife's" (there seems to be some question about this being his wife since he was never married) headstone. On far side base of headstone, near break in stone, box in cavity in front of it.
Hike length: 0.1 miles