Persons Known to Have Been Buried in de Zavala Cemetery

One name on this list belongs to a Mexican general. Manuel Fernandez Castrillon, from Cuba or Spain, had served Santa Anna since 1822, yet in Texas he often opposed his orders. He argued against an immediate assault on the Alamo, though his column was credited with first reaching the walls. He pleaded for a few captured defenders, perhaps including David Crockett, who were executed anyway, and protested the Goliad killings. At San Jacinto he stood to fight, then turned and walked away from the Texans and was shot. Days later his old friend Lorenzo de Zavala recovered the body.

What the plaque says

Persons Known to Have Been Buried in de Zavala Cemetery Vice President Lorenzo De Zavala 1789-1836, Emily West De Zavala (no date), Ricardo De Zavala 1835-1906, Minna Wadzick De Zavala (no date), Emily Smith De Zavala 1847-1883, Darwin De Zavala 1872-1881, Edward Theodore De Zavala 1863-1882, Katherine E. De Zavala 1911-1914, Leroy De Zavala 1905-1954, Lorenzo De Zavala III (no date), Sidney De Zavala 1870-1906, General Manuel Fernandez Castrillon died 1836, Frederick Dulitz 1873-1876, Peter Jefferson Duncan 1799-1836, Doctor Dunlap (no date), Willa Folk 1850-1871, Amy Inez Higginbotham 1878-1915, Lillian Marie Higginbotham 1901-1903, Emily De Zavala Jenkins (no date), Thomas Jenkins (no date), Ethel K. Joyner 1909-1912, Katherine S. Joyner 1887-1911, Frederick Nitsche 1794-1863, William Nitsche (no date), Emma De Zavala Singleton 1870-1938, James Singleton 1881-1912, David Thomas 1801-1836, Emily C. De Zavala Weaver 1861-1892, Ethel Gertrude Weaver (no date), Charles D. Wilcox 1873-1909 (recorded-1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 0.6 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 14 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 17 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

More markers nearby

• de Zavala Plaza — steps away
• Peter Jefferson Duncan — steps away
• Freeman Wilkinson — steps away
• Lorenzo de Zavala — 0.6 mi