Susanna Dickinson Hannig - Messenger of the Alamo

Her ties to this county began early. She married Almeron Dickinson in Bolivar, Tennessee, on May 24, 1829, and the couple reached Gonzales by schooner from New Orleans on February 20, 1831, with fifty-four other settlers. That May Almeron received a league from Green DeWitt on the San Marcos River, in what became Caldwell County. In Gonzales a Dickinson and Kimble hat factory appears on an 1836 map. In San Antonio she lodged in the Musquiz home, where she took boarders, among them David Crockett, and did laundry.

What the plaque says

Susanna Dickinson Hannig - Messenger of the Alamo At this site once stood the home of Susanna Dickinson Hannig (1814-1883), who came to Texas from Tennessee in 1831 with her husband Almeron Dickinson. He died at the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836. Susanna, with her daughter Angelina, was among the survivors. She carried news of the Alamo's capture to Gen. Sam Houston, commander of the Texas Army. Susanna settled in Lockhart in 1855 and bought this property. She married Joseph William Hannig, who had a cabinet shop here. In 1858 they moved to Austin, where susanna died and is buried. (1978)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 0.2 mi
  A cotton-era courthouse town named the Barbecue Capital of Texas, built near the 1840 Plum Creek fight that followed the killing of Comanche leaders at peace talks.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 15 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• McKinney Falls State Park — 21 mi
  Limestone falls on Onion Creek inside Austin, where people camped under a rock overhang for thousands of years and a financier of the Texas Revolution built his stone ranch house.
• Gruene Historic District — 28 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.

More markers nearby

• Caldwell County — steps away
• Battle of Plum Creek — 0.4 mi
• Dr. D. Port Smythe — 0.5 mi
• Bethel Primitive Baptist Church — 8.9 mi