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SIRON R. BOSTICK. In the death of Siron B.
Bostick, from cancer, at his home in San Saba, the night of October 15,
1902, passed away another member of the band of heroes who wrested Texas
from Mexican misrule and established a separate republic, which they
merged into the sisterhood of states that compose the American Union,
and lived to see grow from the condition of a sparsely settled
wilderness to a populous, wealthy and powerful commonwealth.
He was born in 1807, or 1808; came to Texas in 1828 with his father, who
was one of Austin’s colonists; participated in the opening fight of the
revolution at Gonzales, the siege and capture of Bexar, and the battle
of San Jacinto, and was one of the three scouts (his companions being
Joel Robinson and James A. Sylvester) who captured and brought Santa
Anna into the Texan camp, April 22, 1836.
It is with a feeling of sadness that we note the
departure of the fathers of Texas from our midst and realize that the
land their virtues and deeds have consecrated shall know them no more;
but, as to them, they are doubtless willing to go, feeling that they
have been singularly blessed in beholding the seed they planted give
birth to institutions that have grown, from feeble beginnings, to a
strength, maturity and promise that more than realizes the most sanguine
dreams of their youth.
Year Book for Texas:
party conventions, election returns, inauguration of Governor
Lanham and Lieutenant-Governor Neal, legislative work, public
officials and current reports of departments and state
institutions, important events, obituaries of distinguished dead,
industrial development, statistics, biographical sketches, and
historical manuscripts never before published. Raines, Cadwell
Walton, Austin, Tex.: Gammel-Statesman Pub. Co., 1903, pages
33-34.
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