As Texian soldiers routed General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s Mexican troops at the decisive Battle of San Jacinto in April 1836, celebratory shouts of “Remember the Alamo” and “Remember Goliad” rained down on the fallen and fleeing Mexicans.
One of those soldiers shouting victory is buried in the Old Columbia Cemetery. Private Nathaniel C. Hazen survived the firing squads at Goliad and lived to fight the Battle of San Jacinto.
Hazen was able to escape when the bloodbath at Goliad began, and he found his way to General Sam Houston’s camp. He lived only until the end of the year, dying the same day as the “Father of Texas,” Stephen Fuller Austin, on December 27, 1836.
Hazen was buried at Josiah and Mary Bell’s plantation at Columbia at the age of 28. The state of Texas erected a historical marker in Columbia Cemetery in memory of Hazen’s bravery in 1936 during Texas’s centennial. The San Jacinto Museum also lists an entry about Hazen’s participation in the battles of San Jacinto and Goliad.
(https://www.sanjacinto-museum.org/Library/Veteran_Bios/Bio_page/?id=397&army=Texian)
