The Alamo’s Brave Messenger

James Butler Bonham was a rowdy son of South Carolina. At a very young age, he was known as a high-spirited fellow who seemed to always be in and out of trouble during much of his youth. Bonham was born at Red Banks, South Carolina, in 1807, and he was killed in combat on March 6, 1836, in Texas - at the Alamo. According to the Handbook of Texas, Bonham was a second cousin to the…