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The Second Battle for the Alamo
Miss Driscoll's career frequently attracted the attention of
the general public. She wrote a musical comedy, Mexicana,
which was produced in 1905 for a Lee Shubert theater in New
York.'5 Her novel, The Girl of La Gloria, came out that same
year. The next year she published a book of short stories, In the
Shadow of the Alamo, which included an introductory sketch of
the Alamo's history. Also in 1906 the "fiery-eyed, saber-tongued
heiress" married H. H. Sevier, a newspaperman and sometimes
Texas legislator. Mrs. Sevier was named Democratic national
committeewoman from Texas in 1928 and served until 1944. The
DRT elected her president for the years 1927-1931 and 1935-1937.
Headlines in May, 1937, revealed that she had filed suit for
divorce; she took her maiden name by court order in 1938.16
The principal "stones" of contention that developed between
these two high-spirited Texans and shook the DRT to its foun-
dations were those of a crumbling old mission-the Alamo. This
historic shrine came into existence upon the urgings of Fray
Antonio de Olivares. Founded in 1718 and originally known
as San Antonio de Valero, the mission began construction of
the famous chapel in 1744. Five years after its completion in
1757, the church's twin towers collapsed, leaving it roofless and
filled with debris."
In 1793 the mission was abandoned and its archives were
moved to San Fernando Church. Around 1803 the Flying Com-
pany of San Carlos de Parras, a company of Spanish soldiers
from Alamo del Parras, Coahuila, Mexico, arrived at San An-
tonio and occupied the mission for a number of years during
Mexico's struggle for independence. That occupancy by the
"Alamo company" probably gave San Antonio de Valero mis-
sion its popular name."s
"sSan Antonio Express, August 31, 1905-
leTime, XLVI (July 30, 1945), 23-24.
"1Amelia Williams, "A Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the
Personnel of Its Defenders" (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas,
1931), 130, 422, 434-
1sAccording to Stephen Gould, "Its name, Alamo, which signifies Cottonwood
in Spanish, was probably given it by the troops quartered there . . . who called
the old mission Fort Alamo in honor of their former station." Gould, The Alamo
City Guide, San Antonio, Texas, Being A Historical Sketch of the Ancient City of
the Alamo, and Business Review (New York, 1882), 31. See also Williams, "A375
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