Los Origens De La Familia Olivares :Information about Gaspar Flores
Gaspar Flores (b. 05 Jan 1781, d. 06 Sep 1836)
Notes for Gaspar Flores:
His full name was Jose Gaspar Maria Flores de Abrego.He wa Mayor of San Antonio three times, in 1811 and then again in 1824 and then again in1829.He also served asland commissioner and was am ally of the Stephen F. Austin Colonists.
At a meeting on October 13, 1834 that was described as the first strictly revolutionary meeting in Texas, anti-Centralists of Bexar, worried by the dictatorial actions of Mexico's President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the committee called on all Texans to join them in convention on November 15 of that year.Among the thirty-five signers ofthe call to Convention were, Erasmo and Juan N. Seguin, Gaspar Flores and his sons Nicolas and Luciano, and Jose Antonio Navarro.
By 1835 Santa Anna had dissolved Congress and was dispersing state govenments, including that of Coahuila and Tejas (Texas)The crisis reached Bexar with the arrival of troops under Colonal Domingo De Ugartechea.
Gaspar Flores, at that time serving as administrator of the Revenue Department, refused to obey the colonel's demand for his official documents, writing that "the military have no right to interfere."
Santa Anna next sent General Martin Perfecto de Cos to Bexar with additional troops, but Texan volunteers drove them out of Bexar and out of Texas.A small group of volunteers remained in Bexar, heaquartered in the Alamo with neither money nor supplies.Gaspar Flores offered them all his "goods, groceries and what he had."
When the soldiers met with citizens in January 1836, Flores served on the committee that included James Bonham, James Bowie, an Juan Seguin, to draft resolutions for the consideration of the Committee for Independence.
As the younger men joined the Texas army, Flores and Seguin took charge of gathering their own and other families and with loaded oxcarts, hurried to Nacogdoches in east Texas on their way to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence.A fever overcame Gaspar, and he died in Nacogdoches at a home of a friend.
More About Gaspar Flores:
Occupation: Politician, Mayor Of San Antonio Died on his way to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence.
More About Gaspar Flores and Petra Zambrano:
Marriage: 1805, San Antonio Texas.
Children of Gaspar Flores and Petra Zambrano are:
- +Nicolas Gaspar Flores, b. Abt. 1810, San Antonio De Bexar (Now Texas), d. date unknown.