Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez

Alejo came into the Alamo in his mother's arms. Juana Navarro Alsbury, raised by the Veramendi family, probably entered under the protection of her cousin's husband, James Bowie, and helped nurse him through his illness during the siege. On the final day two men who protected her were killed, and soldiers broke into a trunk and took the family's valuables. In 1857 the legislature granted her a pension for her losses and her services there. She probably died in 1888 at her son's Rancho de la Laguna on Salado Creek.

What the plaque says

Alejo de la Encarnacion Perez (March 23, 1835 - October 10, 1918) Alejo de la Encarnacio Perez, infant son of Maria Juana Navarro Perez, was the youngest known survivor of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo. From 1861 to 1864 Alejo served in the Confederate Army. After the Civil War he served the city of San Antonio in a number of offices, including those of police officer and city marshal. Alejo's marriages, to Maria Antonia Rodriguez and Florencia Sappo Valdez, produced 11 children. At the time of his death he was the last known Alamo survivor. Recorded - 1998

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Casa Navarro State Historic Site — 1.1 mi
  The adobe and caliche-block home of José Antonio Navarro, a native-born signer of the 1836 declaration, and the last remnant of the Tejano neighborhood called Laredito.
• King William Historic District — 1.1 mi
  Mission farmland turned German merchants' quarter on the San Antonio River, renamed in World War I, then saved by a neighbor who restored fourteen houses, starting with his own.
• Spanish Governor's Palace — 1.2 mi
  The last visible piece of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar: a presidio captain's house with a 1749 keystone, a century as shops and saloons, and a romantic 1930 restoration.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.3 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.

More markers nearby

• Placido Olivarri — steps away
• Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz — steps away
• Capt. Jose Antonio Menchaca — steps away
• Jose Antonio Navarro — steps away