<P> Juan Seguín oversaw the 1837 recovery of the abandoned ashes and officiated at the February 25 funeral . The March 28 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register only gave the burial location as where `` the principal heap of ashes '' had been found . In the following decades , the public wanted to know the location of the burial site , but Seguín gave conflicting statements , perceived as due to age - related memory problems . Remains thought to be those of the Alamo defenders were discovered at the Cathedral of San Fernando during the Texas 1936 centennial , and re-interred in a marble sarcophagus . Purported to hold the ashes of Travis , Bowie and Crockett , some have doubted it can be proven whose remains are entombed there . </P>
<P> Juan Seguín oversaw the 1837 recovery of the abandoned ashes and officiated at the February 25 funeral . The March 28 issue of the Telegraph and Texas Register only gave the burial location as where `` the principal heap of ashes '' had been found . In the following decades , the public wanted to know the location of the burial site , but Seguín gave conflicting statements , perceived as due to age - related memory problems . Remains thought to be those of the Alamo defenders were discovered at the Cathedral of San Fernando during the Texas 1936 centennial , and re-interred in a marble sarcophagus . Purported to hold the ashes of Travis , Bowie and Crockett , some have doubted it can be proven whose remains are entombed there . </P>
where are the defenders of the alamo buried
where are the defenders of the alamo buried
Cathedral of San Fernando
Cathedral of San Fernando