The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 14, July 1910 - April, 1911 Page: 167
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Notes and Fragments.
How brief the record of many a gallant soldier's fate: "Dead
on the field of honor."
In the city of Goliad, in Fannin Park, there stands a noble
marble shaft; on the north side is engraved the battle cry of San
Jacinto, "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" on the
west, "Independence declared March 2, A. D. 1836, consummated
April 21, A. D. 1836"; on the south, "Fannin; erected in memory
of Fannin and his comrades"; and on the east, "Massacred March
27, A. D. 1836." It forms at once an epitome of history, and
the epitaph of the German drummer and his companions, whose
bodies, after lying for more than two months unburied, were de-
posited with military honors near the old mission church of
La Bahia.
When the widow of Imanuel Frederick Gibenrath, with her two
children, reached Texas in 1839, she met and talked with men
who told her particulars of the last days of her husband. One
said that Gibenrath foresaw that the Mexicans were deceiving the
Texans, and told his comrades that they were going to be butch-
ered instead of being paroled, as they had been led to believe.
Among articles picked up on the field of slaughter were pieces
of brass bands of the drum of the German drummer, which were
given to his widow and cherished by her as a precious memento.
After her husband's death, Mrs. Gibenrath, whose maiden name
was Christina Johanna Hildwein, was married to John Frederick
Hassmann, and she died in Houston many years ago. Her two
children, daughters of Gibenrath, grew to womanhood, and the
elder, Rosanna Balistier, died in New Orleans at the Little Sisters
of the Poor, an institution which she had assisted in founding;
the other, Katharine Gibenrath Hooker, now in her eighty-first
year, lives in Houston at the home of her grandson, George Allien.
Mrs. Hooker was married four times; her first husband was
Frank B. Allien, the father of Captain Fred Allien, a well known
citizen living at Morgan's Point.
Mrs. Hooker has passed through many thrilling scenes. Living
in New Orleans during the war between the States, she was under
military surveillance while the Federals were in possession, and
her ardent Southern feeling subjected her to danger of arrest on
several occasions. Her familiarity with four languages, German,
English, French and Spanish, combined with her ready wit, en-167
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