Katy Holland McDowell Treadwell Cobb

The plaque gives her cousin Tapley Holland a single line; his story became Alamo legend. Tapley was one of six children of Francis and Margaret Holland, Old Three Hundred settlers near the La Bahia Road crossing of the Brazos, and came to Texas at about twelve. He fought at Concepcion and the siege of Bexar under Bowie, then stayed in the Alamo with Carey's artillery company. Survivor Louis Rose, as William P. Zuber later published him, said Holland was the first across the line Travis drew in the dirt. He died there on March 6, 1836.

What the plaque says

Katy Holland McDowell Treadwell Cobb In 1822, at the age of seven, Katy Holland migrated to Texas with her parents as a member of Stephen F. Austin's "Old 300" Colony. Her life reflects the harshness of frontier life in Texas. Twice widowed before her marriage to William Cobb in the 1840s, she was the mother of five children. Her first husband, Mill McDowell, was also a member of Austin's Colony, and a cousin, Tapley Holland, was killed at the Alamo. (1981)

Where it stands

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