deaths
September 6, 1836
Gaspar Flores de Abrego, three terms mayor of San Antonio, in Spanish Texas (born 1781)
Gaspar Flores de Abrego
José Gaspar Flores de Abrego (1781–1836) was a Tejano who served three terms as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas. He was also a land commissioner and associate of Austin's early colonists. Gaspar Flores was a member of a group opposing the dictatorial actions of the President of Mexico, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and is known to have attended their first meeting in Bexar as well as the first revolutionary convention ever held in the city on November 15, 1834. He was one of the 35 men who signed the anti-Centrist document which was presented at the convention.
September 6
September 6 is the 249th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 116 days remain until the end of the year.