| Birth: | Dec. 14, 1834
Gonzales
Gonzales County
Texas, USA | | Death: | 1869
Galveston
Galveston County
Texas, USA | 
The only child of Alamo defender Almeron Dickinson and his wife Susannah Wilkerson Dickinson, she was in the Alamo with her mother during the famous battle. Her obituary reads:
""The Babe of the Alamo" has drifted away, first to New Orleans, later to Galveston. She lived recklessly. She aided victims of a yellow fever epidemic. She remarried and gave birth to a fourth child. And she died, of a uterine hemorrahage at age 34. She lived the life of a courtesan and died so last night." obituary for "Em Britton," (Angelina Elizabeth Dickinson Griffith-Holmes) in a July edition of a Galveston newspaper. Before her death, Angelina had taken up with one Jim Britton, a railroad worker and Civil War officer from Tennessee. It was to him that Angelina gave gave William Barrett Travis' "Cats Eye" ring, now on display at the Alamo in San Antonio. According to family, her grave was in the far back corner of Evergreen Cemetery, also called Cahill Ground. The small headstone, simply inscribed "Britton" was washed to sea during the 1900 Galveston flood.
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Parents:
Almeron Dickinson (1800 - 1836)
Susana Wilkerson Dickinson (1814 - 1883)
Spouses:
Oscar Holmes (1833 - ____)*
John Maynard Griffith (1828 - 1868)*
Children:
Almeron Dickinson Griffith (1853 - 1938)*
Susanna (Susie) Arabella Griffith (1855 - 1929)*
Joseph Griffith (1857 - 1924)*
Sarah (Sallie) Ann Holmes (1865 - 1945)*
*Calculated relationship
| | | Burial:
Evergreen Cemetery
Galveston
Galveston County
Texas, USA |
Created by: Michael Bowlin
Record added: Sep 19, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 42151985 |
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David M. Habben
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