Simona Smith Fisk

Simona was six when the Revolution uprooted her. After her father was wounded at the siege of Bexar, he sent his family to San Felipe, where they arrived on January 4, 1836, reduced to destitution. When word came of the Alamo's fall they joined the Runaway Scrape and followed the interim government to Columbia, a village so crowded that Stephen F. Austin rented a shack there. Her mother died in the cholera epidemic of 1849. Through her father's service Simona later held 4,990 acres of Texas land grants, and the Daily Light called her "one of our oldest citizens."

What the plaque says

Simona Smith Fisk Daughter of Erastus "Deaf" Smith and wife of James Nathaniel Fisk. Born in San Antonio October 28, 1829 - Died November 11, 1890 Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Alamo — 1.1 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — 1.1 mi
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• San Antonio River Walk — 1.2 mi
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 1.6 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

• James Nathaniel Fisk — steps away
• John Lang Sinclair — steps away
• Clara Driscoll (April 2, 1881-July 17, 1945) — steps away
• Samuel S. Smith — steps away