John Walker Baylor, Jr. (–1836) was a Texian pioneer and soldier.Walraven 2018.
He was born at
Woodlawn, Kentucky
Woodlawn is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 212 at the 2020 census.
History
Woodlawn was incorporated as a city October 17, 1922.
Geography
Woodlawn is bordered to the north, west, and so ...
, around December 1813. His father, John Walker Baylor, Sr., a United States Army surgeon, was the son of Major Walker Baylor. His brothers George W., Henry W., and
John R. Baylor
John R. Baylor (born John Robert Baylor; July 27, 1822 – February 6, 1894) was a US Indian agent, publisher and editor, politician, and a senior officer of the Confederate States Army.
According to his family, Baylor left the Alamo as a courier, probably on February 25, 1836. He died on September 3, 1836, in Cahaba, Alabama, of complications from wounds suffered at the Battle of San Jacinto.Groneman 1990, p. 12.Todish ''et al.'' 1998, p. 88.
See also
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List of Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo
When the Battle of the Alamo ended at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 6, 1836, fewer than fifty of the almost 250 Texians who had occupied the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas, were alive.Lord, ''A Time to Stand'', p. 166. The conflict, a ...