“The Ride of Katy Jennings”
Ten-year-old Katy was the daughter of
Catherine Overton and Gordon C. Jennings.
Catherine and Gordon came to Texas in 1832 and
colonized land in Manor, Texas just east of Austin.
Gordon Jennings was the oldest defender
who died in that famous battle at the Alamo in 1836.
Catherine, hearing that the Alamo had fallen,
put her 10 year old daughter, Katy
on a bareback horse to ride the Barton Creek area near Austin.
She was to warn the other settlers that the Alamo had fallen,
and they would have to flee for their lives.
Santa Anna and his army would soon be upon them.
Years later this escape was known as the Runaway Scrape.
Linda Sioux Henley