At their September meeting, the Baron de Bastrop Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas honored the youngest member of the San Jacinto campaign, Bastropian John Holland Jenkins, Sr. At age 13, Jenkins, whose father had been found under a tree mysteriously murdered and scalped two years earlier, begged his mother to let him join Capt. Jesse Billingsley’s Mina Volunteers. Jenkins was at Gonzales with the other Bastrop men when word came of the Alamo’s fall. His hero and guardian, Gen. Edward Burleson, sent Jenkins back with three other men to rescue the women, children, and infirm citizens of ...