I visit Henry Marion Smith all the time, poor fella is buried in a marked grave overgrown by brush and I knock the brush back as best I can. He is buried on an off-Shoot of the Cibolo Creek on Camp Bullis. His first wife is buried about 30 yards away under a pile of stones.
He fought in the battle of Bird’s Creek, was City Marshall of San Antonio, his sons are the focus of a small local book called (The boy Captives), and he owned the land my son’s house is on most likely where his boys were captured.
Wow, twenty five years ago I was on Camp Bullis every spring, employed doing bird surveys for the DoD. I expect there must be more than one burial plot on there.
There was one place, IIRC in Area 9, where we couldn’t get access very often, on an open hillside there was a grave-sized rectangular area of piled-up rocks. Sure looked like a grave, can’t have been dug very deep given the shallow nature of the soil.
Always wondered what the story was.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
