Talk:Theodosia Burr Alston
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[edit] Texas Legend of Theodosia's Fate
Unsolved Texas Mysteries (Wallace O. Charlton, Charlie Eckhardt, Kevin R. Young, ISBN 1-55622-136-3) has a chapter "The Mystery Lady of the San Bernard" which tells a story from the oral history of the Stephen F Austin colony of a Karankawa Indian who wore a woman's gold locket engraved with the word THEODOSIA. The Indian said the locket belong to his "white wife," given to him in "The Great Storm." The author deduces that the storm was the 1816 hurricane and Theodosia was a captive on a pirate ship wrecked by the storm. Shipwrecks have been located at the mouth of the San Bernard river, but the locket is lost.
